Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
RECIPES, ETC.

New York Gingerbre8d.-One cup of
sugar, one cup of milk, two cups Of flour,
one spoonful of butter, one teaspoonful
of cream tartar, one-half of soda, one-half
of ginger.
Relief for Burns.-A quick cure is to
apply a layer OF common salt and satu-
rate it with laudanum. Hold it in place
an hour or so by simple bandage. The
smarting sensation disappears rapidly,
and the burn gets we'll
Cream Pie-Three cups of thick,
| sweet cream, tWo-thirds of cup of sugar,
one egg; flavor with nutmeg, a little all
spice and salt; prepare the crust and bake
the same as a custard pie, and you have a
| cream pie such as our grandmothers used
to make.
To repair rubber boots, take gutta
percha and dissolve it in chlorOform to
the thickness of honey Warm the paste
when ready to use, and apply with a
brush. Patches can be put on very neatly
in this way, and will stand all the ele-
ments but heat"
-Children's Tarts.-Cover your tart
pans with pie crust or puff paste. Slice
three large apples in small squares; seed
half a tea-cup Of raisins; add one egg,
sugar, cream and mix; with this fill each
pan and bake in quick oven.
Either of the following preparations,
are said to remove superfuouS hair with
out injury. Quicklime, one part; carbon
ate Of soda, two parts; lard, eight parts;
rub together till they form an ointment.
Or, sulphuret of potassium and dry pearl
ash, one part each; quicklime, eight parts.
Use with care.
Washing Black Calico.-After wash
ing IN warm suds, rinse in cold water
with handful of salt thrown in the rinse
or perhaps in the starch-have not tried
the latter. A little bran in the first suds
will make it wash easier. On no account
soak the goods, as that fades them badly.
A Good Polish for Furniture Take
one-third vinegar, one-third boiled oil
(lin8eed), onethird spirits of turpentine.
Apply with a soft wooden rag, and rub
well. Elbow grease is quite essential to
the good looks Of the article cleaned. This
answers for black walnut picture frames.
Cheese Toast.-Take a slice of good
rich old cheese, cut it up into small
pieces, put it in tin or iron stew-pan,
and to one cup Of milk add three eggs;
beat eggs and milk together and pour on
| to the cheese; set it on the stove, and
when 1t begins to simmer, stir briskly I'M
| til it forms thick curdle; then pour the
| toast and carry to table.
Baked Minced Mutton.-Take the re
mains of any joint of cold roast mutton,
| one or two onions, one bunch of savOry
herbs, pepper and salt to taste, two blades
OF pounded mace, or nutmeg, one teacup-
ful Of gravy, mashed potatoes Mince an
| onion rather fine, and fry it light brown
color; add the herbs and mutton, both of
which should be also finely minced and
well mixed; season with pepper and salt,
and little pounded mace, or nutmeg,
| and moisten with the above proportion of
| gravy. Put layer of mashed potatoes at
| the bottom of a dish, then the mutton,
! and then another layer of potatoes, and
bake for about half an hour.
Picking Hams.-The best method is
| to rub the hams with coarse salt, to which
onetourth the quantity of coarse brown
| sugar is mixed once a day, laying the
hams flesh side upward in a pile upon a
| table. At each rubbing the top ham OF
| the old pile should be put at the bottom
of the new pile. After three weeks OF
this treatment the hams are ready for
smoking. If liquid pickle is prepared, it
may be made by rubbing the hams as
above mentioned and packing them in a
tub or barrel with layer of sugar and
salt between the hams. When the hams
are packed the barrel is to be filed with
brine strong enough to bear an egg, boil
ed and skinned. After smoking the
hams should not be returned to the
| pickle, but hung up in a cool, dry place
where flies cannot touch them.
An exchange says: "In these days
when diseases Of the throat prevail, and
particularly dry hacking cough, which
is not only distressing to ourselves, but
| to those with whom we are brought in
business contact, those thus afflicted may
be benefited by trying the following
remedy: Last fall we were induced to
try what virtue there was in common
salt. We commenced by using it three
times day, morning, noon, and night J.;
we dissolved large teaspoonful OF com
mon salt in about half tumbler Of cold
water, and with this we gargIed the throat
most efectually, just before meal time.
| The result has been that during the
winter we were not only free from the
usual coughs and colds to which, as far
as our memory extends, we have always
been subject, but the dry hacking cough
has entirely disappeared; we attribute it
entirely to the salt gargle, and most
cordially recommend it to those of our
readers who are subject to disease of the
| throat