Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-16
RECIPES, ETC.


Lemon and Orange Peel-Dry thor
oughly, pound or grind in a hand-mill !;
sift, bottle and cork. Excellent for fla
vOring.
Poverty Cake.-Two cups of thin
cream, two cups of stoned and chopped
Taisins. two cups of sugar, four cups of
flour, one teaspoonful OF soda, salt and
spice
Delicate Cake.-Two cups of white
sugar, two and three-Quarters of a cup of
butter, half a cup of milk, the whites Of
eight eggs, half a teaspOOnfUl of soda,
one teaSpOOnful of cream tartar Flour
to taste.
Steam Pudding.-One cup chopped
raisins, two Guns of sweet milk, one cup
OF chopped Suet. four cups of flour, one
cup OF sugar, one teaSpOonful OF soda;
spice to Your taste. and add little salt.
Steam two hours.
Squash beetles may be driven off by
sPHnkllng anything that smells strongly
OF ammonia upon the plants. Lime or
plaster grOundup with one part of car
oohc acid to a hundred, would answer
the purpose. SCOT is also good remedy.
Apple Pudding Without Pastry
rare and cut up enough apples to weigh
TWO pounds. Boil them and rub through
colander Add large spoonful of but
Ter While they are hot, and when cold add
halt a pound of crushed white sugar, six
WeH-beaten eggs and the grated rind of
a lemon. Pour the mixture into deep
dlsh and bake for half an hour.
10 Destroy Moles-Make a stiff
dough Of corn meal, mixing with it a
small quantity of arsenic. Make hole
with a finger in the runways, drop in Il
lump OF dough about the size of mar
bic, and then cover over with a lump of
earth to exclude the light. After the
hrst rain go over the field again and de
post IN all freshly-made roads.
Delicious Citron Pudding.-Beat I'M
til very thick and light the yolkS of six
teen fresh eggs. Stir in gradually, beat
ing all the time, three-quarters of pound
| OF sugar. Then mix in three-QuarterS of
a pound of melted butter from which all
the salt has been previously washed.
Now line two deep pie-plates with puff
paste. Cut into thin slices some pre-
served citrOn and lay closely over the
pastry, leaving margin, Of course,
around the edges. Fill with the butter
and bake in an oven whose heat is regu-
lar, but not too great. When drawn from
the oven, sift over them fnely-pulveriZed
white sugar. They are good whether
eaten hot or cold, and are considered the
most dainty and delicate of all buildings.
Permanent Lightning-A chemical
experimental in st. Petersburg has dis
covered new and beautiful means of
popular illumination. Placing pencil
or charcoal in a glass tube not more than
SIX inches long, eXhausting the air from
the tube, and Theoretically sealing the
latter, and then passing current of cleo
| trlcity through the charcoal, he produces
a light at once brilliant and soft, which
will last for an indefinite period. AS the
charcoal is not perceptibly consumed in
| the process, and two hundred tubes at
considerable distances apart can be kept
| splendidly luminous by single electrical
machine, the discoverer thinks that he
can light whole city at fabulously small
cost.
Wash for Fences and Out-Buildings
| Take a barrel and slack one buShel Of
freshly-burned lime in it by covering the
lime with boiling water. After it is
Stacked, add cold water enough to bring
| it to the consistency Of good Whitewash.
Then dissolve in water and add one pound
of white vitriOl (sulphatc Of Zinc) and one
quart of fine salt. To give this wash a
cream-color, add one-half a pound Of vel
low ochre lin POWDER. To give it Il fawn
look, add pound of yellow ochre and
one-fourth Of a pound of Indian red. To
make the wash handsome gray-stone
color, add one-half pound Of French
blue and one-fourth pound of Indian red;
d drab will be made by adding one-half
Of pound of burnt sienna and one
fourth pound Venetian red. For brick
or stone, instead of one bushel of lime,
use half bushel of lime and half a bushel
OF hydraulic cement