Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-13
RECIPES, ETC.

TO clean Drowned porcelain kettle,
boil in it strong soda water.
TO clean silver plate, rub it lightly
over with kerosene, then polish with fine
whiting and chamois skin.
TO prepare citron, cut, boil in thin
syrup until fully penetrated, sift white
sugar over it, and dry either in sun or g
moderate oven.
"A French journal of horticulture says
that tan has been found to be an efficient
preventive against the potato disease.
For several years a French farmer has
introduced small quantity of the resi-
due of the bark used in tanning into each
hole on planting potatoes, and has been
successful in preserving his fields free
from the disease.
Boiled Haddock. clean and
empty the fish, and fasten the tail firmly
in the mouth Tie in well Toured
cloth, and lay it in a fish kettle or ordi-
nary saucepan. Cover it with cold water,
and let it heat slowly. When it SINNERS
push the kettle back to prevent boiling,
and simmer gently for twenty minutes
or, if the fish is very large, half an hour.
Serve with melted butter, parsley, and
slices of hard boiled eggs.
Sweet Potato Balls.-Boil the pota.
toes, and we'll mash them. Have ready
a pint of milk, which has been boiled.
Add little lemon peel, two Jumps of
sugar, and little salt. Add the potatoes
to the milk as soon as it is ready, and
make pretty thick mush. When it has
cooled, make into balls, covering them
with crumbs of bread and yolks of egg
Fry them nice brown, and serve up
with sugar strew ed over them.
How to made suet puddin without
eggs C'brown puddingl:-One cup mo-
lasses, one cup milk, one cup suet, chop
ped fine, one cup raisins, or any other
fruit dried apples or peaches soaked in
warm water an hour, and cut up with
scissors, will answer al everyday pur-
pose), three cups flour, one teaspoon
soda, one do. cloves, one do. cinnamon,
or any spices liked. Boil three hours.
Sauce:-One cup sugar, half-cup butter,
one cup boiling water; brandy and nut
meg to taste.
Baked Orange Pudding-Take six
ounces of stale sponge cake, or bruised
ratatas, six oranges, one pint of milk, six
eggs, and one half pound of sugar. At
ter crumbling the sponge cake CT ratafias
into fine crumbs, pour the milk (Which
should be boiling) over them. Crate the
rinds of two of the oranges on sugar, and
add them, with the juice of the remaining
four, to the other ingredients. Beat up
the eggs, stir them in, sweeten to taste,
and put the mixture into deep pie dish,
lined with puff paste. Bake a little more
than half an hour. Turn it out Of the
dish, strew sifted sugar over, and serve
How to Boil Corned Beef.-The Bos
ton Journal Of Chemistry says: The rule
has Hibernian sound; don't boil it; fol-
cornea beef should never be boiled. Il
should only simmer, being placed on g
part of the range or stove where this pro
cess May we go on interruptedly from foul
to six hours, according to the size of the
piece. If it is to be served cold, let the
meat remain in the liquor until cold
Tough meat can be made tender by let
ting it remain in the liquor until the
next day, and then bringing it to the
boiling point just before serving.
To Pickle Onions.-The following
mode is good one: Take those that are
small, peel them, put them in cold water
changing them twice day for two days
| then put them in salt and water for two
days, changing them twice day; drain
them we'll; take off the next skin; pu
them in jars, and spice and pepper then
as for other pickles; then boil vinegar
and pour it, hot, over them. Put small
them firm. II you like them rod, add
cochineaI or white distilled vinegar.