Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-26
RECIPES, ETC.

Plain Tea Cake--Two eggs; beat
whites and yolks separately; one cup
sugar; one-half cup butter; one cup milk ;
one large teaspoonful baking powder
flour to stiffen. Lemon one teaspoon;
bake in quick oven.
-Doughnuts-Th cups lukewarm
water, one cup melted lard, one cup mo-
lasses, one level teaspoon o. salt, one
heaping teaspoonful saleratus, flour to
roll: thoroughly mix all the rest of ingre-
dients before adding flour. Roll one
fourth inch thick, and cut with biscuit
mold. The inner hole may be cut with
the top of a glass pepper box, or any
round and hollow article about that size.
Peas Cake.-Look over and wash
one pint Of dry, white marrow-fat peas
whole or split; add two quarts of water,
cover close and stew gently, until the peas
are quite reduced to pulp; strain through
a coarse sieve or cOlander; salt to the
taste, and pour into a fiat dish, to the
depth of an inch or more; let this stand
to cool several hours, or until it is quite
firm: cut in short slices, half an inch
thick, and serve cold, as a relish, with
bread and butter and stewed fruit. 1t is
palatable, nutritious and wholesome, pro-
vided one does not tattoo much. Cooked
in steam, or in a double boiler, it requires
less water.
Queen of Puddings.-Into one quart of
sweet milk put of fine bread crumbs one
pint, butter the size of an egg, the we'll
beaten yolks of five eggs. Sweeten and
flavor the same as for custard. Mix the
whole well together. While the above is
baking beat the whites of the eggs to 81
stiff troth, and add a teacup of white
sugar. Pour it over the hot pudding
when cooked, and return it to the oven
and bake to delicate brown. Some pre-
fer layer of jelly or canned peaches or
other fruit over the pudding before the
frosting is added. No sauce is needed.
1t is not only delicious but light and di-
gestible.
The clothing about the neck should
be very moderate in quantity, and worn
so loose as to prevent the slightest COM
preston. The great errors frequently
committed in clothing this part of the
body consist in wearing such an amount
as to overhead end weaken the throat, and
thus render it easily susceptible to cold,
or in wearing it so tight as to retard the
circulation of the blood 10 and from the
head. Great care should be exercised
upon this point, as the arteries and veins
leading from the heart to the brain are
situated so near the surface in the neck
that slight compression there serves to
check the flow of the blood.
TO Keep Hams in Summer.-There
are number of modes given to keep
hams through the warm season free from
the attacks of insects. Some bag them
and whitewash the bags, which is trouble
some and somewhat expensive; some
cover them with dry wood-ashes and pack
them in barrels; some pack them in bar
rels and cover thoroughly with pine shaw
ings; but we think the best plan of all,
and certainly the least expensive with all
who have a smoke-house, and every
farmer should have a good one, is to
keep the hams hung up in the smoke
house, which should be kept perfectly
dark at all times. We have eaten hams
so kept two years old, and they were
among the very best we ever tasted. Uni
form darkness is a complete protection
against the attack of insect Germantown
telegraph.