Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

! INDIAN CAKE.-Two cups sour milk
two tablespoons good molasses or sugar,
one teaspoon soda, little salt, half cup
-four and Indian meal to make very
thin batter An egg improves it. Bake
nice brown.
OYSTER OMELET-Whisk four eggs to
thick froth, then add by degrees one
| gill Of cream; beat them we'll together;
season the eggs with pepper and salt to
taste. Have ready one dozen fine oys-
tiers; cut them in half pour the eggs into
pan of hot butter. and drop the oys-
tiers over it as equally as possible Fry
| a light brown and serve hot.
SOMETHING BETTER THAN SHoRT-CA
Make nice, light, white gems by mix
ing flour and milk nearly as soft as for
griddle cakes, and bake quickly in hot
gem-pans. Break, not cut, them lpen
and lay in deep platter and pour over
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,
peaches, or even nice stewed apples,
mixed with sugar and little rich cream,
if you have it. Ten times better than
any pastry or short-cake, and you get rid
of soda or baking powder and shorten
ing.-Laegs Of Life.
To BAKE BEEF's HEART-Cut it
open, remove the ventricles, and let it
soak an hou. in lukewarm water to free
from the blood Wipe dry with
cloth and parboil in little water for
twenty minutes Make a rich stufing,
fill the heart with it and secure it with
string. Let it bake an hour and half
or two hours, with a half pint of water,
in the oven OF drippingpan. The gravy
will not need any thickeniDg. Serve in
a chatng-dish, and with cUrrant or acid
jelly.
IT is wrong to hold up fainting per-
son, and especially to keep the head
erect. Painting is caused by want of
blood in the brain, the heart failing to
act with sufficient force to send the blood
against the laws Of gravitation. If, then,
you place a person sitting whose heart
has nearly ceased to beat, his brain will
fail to receive blood; if you lay him
down with the head lower than the heart
blood will run into the brain by the
mere force Of gravity, and, in fainting, in
sufficient quantity, generally, to restore
consciousness.
A USEFUL HINT.-Vory often a screw
hole gets so worn that the screw will
not stay in. Where glue is handy, the
regular carpenter makes the hole larger
and CLUES in large plug, making a nest
for an entirely new hole. But this is not
always the case and people without tools
and in an emergency often have to fix the
thing at once. Generally leather is used,
but this is so hard that it does not hold
well. The best Of all things is to cut
narrow strips of cork and fill the hole
completely. Then force the screw in.
This will make as tight job as if driven
into an entirely new hole
THE MILLER's ToIL.-People who send
grain to the mill are often disposed to
grumble at the small quantity Of flour or
meal which they receive after the grind
ing That there are many dishonest
millers there is no doubt, just as there are
good many dishonest farmers; but
probably honest men are often unfairly
blamed. Farmers who are careless as to
the condition Of their grain are often the
most apt 10 find fault 1t is surprising
how etfectually q little chess or trash
viii reduce the weight of bushel of
grain. Every one has an easy safeguard
against rascaIly miIlers at his disposal in
weighing the grain before it is ground,
and afterward weighing the -four, bran,
etc. Allowing say two pounds per bushel
for waste, the combined weight of the
grist should equal the weight of the
grain, No honest and fairly good-tem-
pered miller should object to an occa-
sional double weighing to oblige a Gus
toner JF00nS9etet II. IT, Patriot.