Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30
RECIPES, ETC.

III caStOr-Oll Is mixed with glycerlne,
and few drops of cinnamon added, the
taste Of the castor-oil can scarcely be rec
ogniZed.
Lemon Pie.-Grate three lemons in
bowl, add four cups of sugar, three table
spoonfuls flour, one and one half cups
water, makes five pies, two crasts.
Graham Bread.-Add to Graham
-Four warm water, yeast, salt, a large
spoonful or two Of mOlasSes; make the
dough stiff and knead it and bake two
hours.
Milk Cakes.-Take one egg and a
pint sweet milk; add buckwheat flour I'M
til the batter is rather stiff; then add one
teaspoOnful yeast powder, a little salt;
bake quickly. If liked very light, add
more yeast powder
Yorkshire Pudding.-One quart of
sweet milk, four eggs, two cups of flour, a
small piece of butter; bake fifteen min
utes To be eaten as soon as it comes
faom the oven, with sugar and cream, fla
vored with lemon.
"A Good Ink.-Take bichromate of
potassa one part, and extract of logwood
three parts add water, bring it to a boil,
and it is ready for use. In the winter it
must not freeze, though if it does, boil it
again and it will be ready for use again
Exchange.
-Vinegar.-Take two gallons of water
and add two and one-half pounds brown
sugar and two gills fresh yeast. Keep
warm three or four days, then draw it off
and add two ounces each cream tartar
and chopped raisins; it will be ready for
use in few weeks if kept very warm at
first.
-Mush.-Fill kettle half full of boil
ing water; add salt; when the water boils
stir in meal till it is stiff; then add one
teacup flour; cook very slowly half an
hour; when cold, slice and roll in flour
and fry brown in two spoOnfuls hot lard :;
or eat warm, with sugar and butter or
sweet milk.
Cheap Pudding.-Put in tin pail
two quarts of skinned milk and set in
kettle of boiling water; when very hot
stir into it one pint of meal; take from
the fire and add one teacup mOlasses, one
teaspOOnful salt and one of cinnam on;
bake in buttered cake-pan; use cream
sauce favored with nutmeg.
To Clean Gloves make a thick muci-
lage by boiling a little faxseed, to which
add little dissolved soap, and when the
mixture cools wipe the gloves with a
piece of white flannel, previously fitting
them to the hand. Use only enough OF
the cleansing mixture to take off the dirt
without wetting through the glove.
Corn Meal Pudding. 1.-Two pints
meal, one pint grated bread, one of mo-
lasses, one of brown sugar, one of sour
milk, two tablespoonfuls butter, half
teaspoonful of ginger and two of CHINA
mon, three eggs, half a teaspoonful soda;
slice soft, juicy apples and add one tea
cnpful if liked; bake half an hour. Sauce,
cream and sugar.
-Home-Made Hominy.-Putin an iron
kettle three quarts clean wood ashes; fill
the kettle with boiling water and boil
half an hour; then take it from the fire
and let it stand until cold; then pour off
the I've and boil the corn in it until the
hulls begin to come off; then rub and
wash thoroughly three or four times, and
boil until very tender lit can be made in
large quantities); then take small por-
ton and put in the frying pan and add
one pint of milk; when it boils mash it
fine and add butter, salt and cream, or, if
preferred, warm it in milk and add salt
without MASKING it.