Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-02
RECIPES, ETC.

To prevent lock, jaw, caused by run
ming a nail in the foot OF man or beast,
apply bruised peach-leaves, removing
twice day.
-Silkworms fed on different leaves
produce silks of varied color; thus vine
leaves produce magnificent red, lettuce
an emerald green.
| English Cookies.-One cup of raisins
chopped, one cup of brown sugar, one
half cup of butter, one egg, two tablespoons
of sour cream, One-fourth teaspoon soda
cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg
To Polish Tins.-First rub your tins
with dry cloth; then take dry flour and
rub it on with your hands; afterwards
take an old newspaper and rub the -four
| off, and the tins will shine as well as if
half an hour had been spent rubbing them
with brick dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
-CoalOii for Robber Bees.-An old
| bee-keeper says that coal-oil sprinkled
about the entrance of the hive is a sure
| remedy to drive away Iobber-bees. He
| says he has tried it many times, and never
| failed to get the best results from its use.
Yeast Cake.-Two cups Of dough, one
| cup of sugar, one cup of butter, two eggs,
one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one cup
of raisinS. Stir the butter and sugar we'll
| together, beat the whites of the eggs, add
| the dough and stir well; add the CHINA
mon, and last of all the raisins rolled in
little flour.
Paste that will Stick-Take four
pounds OF fine wheat -four and make
batter with cold water; take out all Jumps,
| then add boiling water till you have al
most a painful. This is good paper
hangers paste. To make it stick to
painted walls, add one ounce of finely
pulveriZed resin for each gallon of paste,
and boil it; when too thick add more wa
ter.
Writing Ink-The following is said
| to be good: One drachm of aniline black,
dissolved in three-quarters of an ounce of
alcohol, to which sixty drops of concen-
| trated muriatic acid are to be added. This
solution is of deep blue color, and is to
be diluted with three ounces of water in
which three-quarters of an ounce of gum
| arabic has been dissolved. This ink does
| not corrode steel pens and cannot be de-
stroyed Or erased from paper by the APP
plication of acids.
Stuffed Beefsteak- Make a dressing
Of bread crumbs, butter, pepper, salt, sage
or sweet marjOrum, and an egg. Lay it
| on one side of d round of steak, cover it
with the others, and basic it down with
needle and thread. Salt and pepper the
| other side of the steak, and put it in
dripping pan with half an inch of water.
When baked down on one side turn and
bake the other. Do not let it burn.
Removing Grease Spots.-Make a
paste ofquicklime, washing soda and as
little water as possible, put it on the
grease spots, when you have to do with
stone Or wood. 1t may, however, discolor
the wood or make it darker. In case you
| wish to avoid this, cover the wood or
paper with dry carbonate of magnesia,
powdered chalk, or even dry starch pow
der, place on top thick blotting-paper,
and then hot flatiron. This will draw
out the grease. If not fully drawn out,
scrape off the powder and repeat the opera
ton. Some liquid ammonia may finish
the job if the heat does not fully clean it
all up.
Brilliant Whitewash-Tak half a
bushel of nice unslacked lime. Slack it
with boiling water, cover it during the
process to keep in the steam. Strain the
liquid through a fine sieve and add to itsa
peck of salt previously well dissolved in
warm water, three pounds of ground rice
boiled to thin paste and stirred in boil
ing hot, half pound of powdered Span
ish whiting, and a pound of clean glue
which has been previously dissolved by
soaking it well and then hanging it over
a slow fire in a small kettle within a large
one filled with water; add five gallons of
hot water to the mixture, stir it we'll, and
let it stand a few days covered from the
dirt. 1t should be put on hot.
-Noxious Gases in Wels-Lives are
frequently lost by noXious gases in wells.
This may be prevented by the adoption of
the following very simple means: Take
some pieces of carpet, or common sacks,
and make them up into a loose bundle,
nearly as large as the area of the well.
1nclose in it a brick to give weight, and
attach to the bundle rope of sufficient
length to reach the bottom of the well.
Throw this bundle down the well, and
haul it up again as quickly as possible.
Repeat this operation rapidly for ten min
utes, and the atmosphere of the we'll will
become quite innoXious, as may be proved
by letting down a lighted candle. The
bundle, as is easily understood, carries
before it quantity of fresh air from the
surface, and this, of course, displaces
the foul and dangerous air from the bot
tom.