Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
RECIPES, ETC.

Hanover Doughnuts.-Onec cup sugar,
one egg, halfcup cream, one cup sour
milk, one large teaspoon soda, half-tea-
spoon salt.
Carries Sponge Cake.-One cup
white sugar, three eggs, two-thirds cup
cream, one and half cups flour, one tea
spoonful cream tartar, Tablespoonful
soda, the same of salt.
To wash calicoes and muslin without
fading, soak them two or three hours IN
pail Of water in which two ounces OF
sugar Of lead has been dissolved; then
wash as usual. If they soak longer 1t
does no harm.
Cottage Pudding-One egg, one cup
sugar, one cup sweet milk, two spoonfuls
melted butter, two cups flour, one tea
spoon Of soda, one of cream tartar.
Steam half an hour. To be eaten with
pudding sauce.
TO cleanse the scalp, take one tea
! spoonful of powdered boraX, one table
! spoonful of hartshorn and one quart Of
water. Mix all together and apply to the
mead with a soft sponge; then rub the
mead with a dry towel. Use once
week.
10 Color Butter.-Take two or three
carrots, scrape off the skin and then CRATE
them. Put the gratings in cloth; wet
It; then dip it in the cream and squeeze
1t well. A little experience will enable
any one to give the butter the shade de-
sired
! The best absorbing substance for
easing the pain of blessings is fresh lean
meat. This will relieve the pain of
| WASH SflDCr almost i0cta0tIu an6 hoe hanD
recommended for the cure of rattlesnake
| bites. 1t is also used with marked effect
in erySipelas.
French Loaf-Put layer of toma-
| toes in the bottom of your pudding dish;
then a layer of sliced onions, sliced very
thin; a little pepper and salt; then a layer
OF bread and butter, and so on until your
Dish IS full; the last layer tomatoes. Boil
one hour, slowly; if large, two hours will
not be too long.
Dressing for Chopped Cabbage.-The
yolks of three or four hard-boiled eggs,
mashed fine, with a lump of butter the
size Of walnut; add to this teaspoonful
OF mustard, and beat it all up in vinegar
weakened by water and sweetened with
sugar so as to- be palatable, and pour
while hot over the cabbage and cover.
l
II the place Of butter.
To Make Cuttings Grow.-I used to
have great deal Of trouble to make cur
rant and gooseberry cuttings or slips
| grow, until tried the following plan: |
boiled some potatoes until they were
nearly done, and then stuck one in each
slip and put it in the ground. Every slip
| sprouted and grew well all summer, with
one or two exceptions. The idea of put
ting the boiled potatoes to the end of cut
tlngs is to furnish and keep moisture
| enough for them to grow until the roots
become large enough to gather this
moisture and substance from the soil. |
never tried it on grape cuttings, but do
not see any reason why it would not do as
well with grapes as with anything else
Cor. Wisconsin Farmer.
The Best Dentifrice.-The London
Lancet says: can eminent dentist, in ex-
aiming the teeth Of forty persons of diff
terent professions, and living different
kinds Of life, found in almost all vegeta-
bic and animal parasites. The parasites
were numerous in proportion to the
neglect of cleanliness. The means Ordi-
narily employed to clean the teeth had no
effect on the parasites, whilst soapy water
appeared to destroy them If this be
true version Of the cause of the carries
the action Of acids, supplemented by the
action Of fungi-then it follows that the
! great means of preserving teeth is to pre-
serve the most scrupulOus cleanliness of
the mouth and teeth and to give to the
rinsing Ii. uids a slightly alkaline charac-
ter, which is done by the admixture of
little soap. This is not so pleasant den
thrice as some, but it is effective and
scientific. Acids not only dissolve the
salts of the teeth, but favor the increase of
the fungi Of the mouth. No increase of
fungi and no action on the dental tissues
occur in solutions slightly alkaline, such
as weak solution of soap. The good eff
fects of stopping teeth, in the
light of these experiments, are intelligi-
bic. The penetration of acids and fungi
| is prevented"