Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03
RECIPES, ETC.

-Jumbles.-Four eggs one cup butter,
TWO cups sugar, one even teaspoon OF
soda, one heaping teaspoon of cream-tar-
tar, flour to roll out Dissolve the soda in
little milk or water
"A correspondent writes that well-pul-
verified dry dirt, thrown vigorously upon
potato-plants covered with Colorado bugs,
is said to be one of the best means of driv-
ing the bugs from the potato patches.
Fruit Cake-One and two-thirds cups
of butter, five cups of flour, three
cups OF sugar, one cup OF wine, one
teaspoontul of soda, one pound of
raisins, one pound Of currants, one
fourth pound of citron five eggs Spice
to your taste.
Light Fruit Cake.-Three-fourt
pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound
eggs, one pound flour, one pound raisins,
stoned and chopped little, one-half
pound cItron, small teaspoonful soda-no
spice. viii keep all summer
"A correspondent Of the Mark Lane
Express is authority for the statement that
if tablespoonful Of paratline is stirred
into quart Of peas just previous to plant
ing, so that they are coated, no vermn
will touch the seed. The suggestion is
worthy Of notice, as it is not unreasonable
to suppose that seed corn thus treated
might, in measure, be protected from
the ravages Of cut-worms.
Washington Pie-Three eggs beaten
very light, one heaping cup fine white
sugar; beat five minutes; then add one
cup of flour, with one teaspOonful OF
cream tartar we'll stirred into it; then one
half cup cold water; then one cup OF
flour, with one-half teaspoontul soda well
stirred into it; then three tablespoonful
melted butter. Follow these directions
infinitely, and you will be sure Of success
Bake in very thin sheets; when cold
spread lemon jelly upon the top of one
sheet, and place another upon it; then
spread jelly upon that, and so on until
you use up your sheets.
Paint for Rough Buildings-A cor
respondent in the Country Gentleman gives
the following recipe for cheap coloring
for rough buildings: Take OF. of sal
ammoniac and OF. of potash; dissolve
these IN three quarts Of water; then add
one quart raw linseed oil; then take, say
10 pounds dry red paint THAT was what
we used and add water enough to make
it thin enough to put on with whitewash
brush 1--WE used fish pickle) Add one gill
tulpentlnc 10 the llnSeeu OIL. IL red does
not suit, add anything to alter the color.
We used paint made as above on rough
buildings twelve years ago, and it is al
most or quite as bright now as when we
put it on. To make the building look
well, you ought to paint the corner boards
with white lead and oil
To Make Cheese from Loppered Milk
Set the thick milk on the top of the
stove, where it will gradually scald. Stil
gently now and then. 1t should not be
| allowed to boil as that makes the euro
too hard and dry. When it is cooked Sc
that the curd will keep its shape after he
| ing squeezed in the hand, it is done
Pour it into a colander, to let the whey
drain off, and when cool enough to handle
press it in the hands to get out the re
mainder of the whey. Then, to quart Oh
so of curd, take a tablespoonful Of butter
three of sweet cream, a teaspoon of salt
and mix it we'll together. Then make i
into cakes, or press it all in dish to
gether and cut it with knife whel
| wanted.