Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
RECIPES, ETC.

Measure Cake.-One cup sugar, one
half cup butter, one-half cup sweet cream,
two eggs, one teaspoon soda; flavor with
lemon.
-Cookies.-One cup butter, one cup
sweet milk, two cups sugar, two tea
spoons cream tartar, one teaspoon soda,
-four TO roll; roll, cut in small cakes, and
bake ten minutes. Any spice you choose.
-Cocoanut Cake.-Two pounds sugar,
one pound butter, one pound and three
quarters flour, ten eggs, two grated CO.
coanuts, one cup milk, and the milk of
the cOcoanut; add One-half teaspOOntul
soda last thing. This makes two loaves.
To corn beef take four quarts fine
salt, four pounds dark brown sugar, four
ounces saltpeter to each 100 pounds.
Pack beef green and Unfrozen, sprinkling
the mixture among the layers and over
top. Apply weight. In short time the
Juices eXude from the tissues, and a
pickle is formed, which will preserve the
meat indefinitely.
Strawberry Short Cake.-Mix as for
biscuit roll about one inch thick and
bake When done, have ready strawber-
ries mixed with cream and sugar. Split
the cake and spread with butter, then lay
on the fruit and put one piece upon an
other with fruit between every layer;
when all is done return to the oven for a
few minutes Most berries can be used
in the same way, apples and pie-plaut
also; but for pie-plant leave out the
cream.
-Catarrh Remedy-Take half a pint
of water, put in one teaspOonful of salt,
then make it blood warm. Now get
down on your knees and snuff it up the
nose; then throw the top of your head in
a downward position until it penetrates
well; apply once or twice a day. Then,
in four or five hours, take burnt alum, pull
verified finely, about one-fourth teaspoon
full, and put in a cup of warm water and
apply it. Wet the head in cold water to
keep from taking cold.-C0r RatrGS Neoo
Yorker.
Whatever may be true in field crops,
it is fact beyond all question that garden
products cannot get on without an
abundant supply of manure. Small,
tough, ibrous, insipid vegetables may be
grown without it, but none other. Give
the ground an annual dressing Of it, well
pulVerized and worked in, and it will
yield large, tender, juicy esculent roots
and small fruits, such as are luxury to
look at and to eat and such as will COM
mand the highest price in market. Ii
ones supply of barnyard manure is small,
let him save all the refuse of kitchen,
hennery and wOOdhOuse, and compost
these together with leaves in the fall, and
he will be surprise at the amount OF his
yearly accumuIations.-N.Y 7. Herald.
To Destroy Lice.-The best prepare
ton for the removal of lice from cattle,
young or old, is a salve of fresh lard
ground up with fine sulphur Zone ounce
of sulphur to four ounces Of lard), and
raw linseed oil mixed with kerosene oil
in the proportion of four parts of Hnseed
to one Of kerosene. These should be
rubbed from between the ears all around
the backbone to the root Of the tail, about
twice week. Two applications are
generally sufficient They are not in any
degree hurtful if they are licked by the
cattle. Lice which have been placed in
contact with q small quantity of either Of
these mixtures were Immediately killed,
while mercurial ointment and carbOlic
acid failed to kill them in several hours.
N. 7. Tribune.
To Bleach Muslin-For every five
pounds OF cloth dissolve twelve ounces
chloride of lime in small quantity Of
boiling soft water. When cold strain it
into Sufficient quantity OF water to I'M
merse the goods in. Boil them ten or
fifteen minutes in strong soap-suds, wiring
in clear, cold water, then put the goods
into the chloride Of lime solution from
ten to thirty minutes, with frequent air
ings, rinse well and dry the goods, then
scald in clear, soft water and dry. Second
Met75od-Boil thick sour milk, strain it
into a stone pot, and then put in what
ever it is desired to bleach; let it remain
there few days, turning it thrice day;
wiring out, wash through cold soft water,
and spread in the hot sun. Repeat the
process once or twice if necessary.-KG-
change.