Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

PARSNIP CAKES. Crate the parsnips
raw, and to every cup of parsnip add one
egg and bread crumbs enough so that the
mixture may be formed into cakes.
Season to taste and fry in butter or nice
| drippings.
RECIPE FOR MAKING RUsKs.-Take
one cup of good hop yeast, one and
half pints of warm water, little salt,
mix and knead until perfectly smooth,
then set in a warm place to rise; after it
has risen, add six eggs and three teacups
of sugar, which have been we'll beaten
together, shorten with two-thirds CT
cup Of lard, and set to rise again, then
make into small rolls; place them closely
in a pan when risen nearly to the top;
bake, and when done, and while hot,
crate white sugar over the top.
BAKED HEART OF BEEF-Put the
heart into warm water to soak for two
hours, then wipe it we'll with cloth, and
after cutting Off the lobes fill the inside
with stuffing made of fnely-chopped
cold beef or veal, or bread crumbs well
seasoned with salt, pepper and savory
herbs; f&sten it in by means of a needle
and coarse thread, put it in a baking
dish with little water in moderate
oven, keep we'll basted with beef drip
ping, bake for two hours and serve with
a good gravy and red currant jelly.
AN English journal, in reply to an in
qulry, says: "Canaries are made high
colored with the free use of cayenne
pepper in their food. Some breeders
mix it with egg and biscuit; others use it
in cake, with which they freely feed
the birds during the whole Of the mott
ing period. TO one egg, when hard
boiled and chopped fine Tor it may be
more etfectually done by pressing
through sieve, add two teaspoonfuls
of cayenne, pure, and mixed well to-
gether. Then add one small biscuit, re-
duced to powder. Mix the three in
gradients together and supply your (say
some halfd0Zen) birds with the diet two
or three times daily. No green food dur
ing the mott. The more of the pepper
food the birds partake Of and the less of
seeds the deeper the color Of the plum
age will be. You need not fear your
birds feeding upon the above food. Com
mence with the pepper diet when the
young have attained the age of six weeks.
There will be no necessity to put the
whole of the young birds upon the
cayenne diet. Select for the purpose the
boldest and most likely-looking cock
birds. Young canaries bred from pepper
fed birds will not be high-colored in first
Or nest feathers. To make them high
colored they must be molted upon
cayenne"
JAvELLE WATER.-Take two pounds
washing soda and two pounds chloride
of lime, place them in hot stone lar and
pour over them two gallons boiling
water, then place over it a thick cloth
and board with a stone upon it. Let
it stand twenty-four hours, stirring two
OF three times. When quite clear strain
it through bed-ticking on thick flannel,
rinsing out immediatelyto save the cloth
Then bottle close for future USE 1t is
excellent to remove fruit and vegetable
stains and perhaps some others, but
avails nothing with ink and iron rust.
1t is intensely alkaline and therefore it
affects acids principally. A half pint in
three or four pals of boiling water will
Whiten tablecloths beautifully. ANY
small article that is to be thoroughly
treated should be washed and boiled
first, then it may be dipped in the javelle
water, let it stand three or four minutes,
watching it very closely and removing it
the moment the stains disappear If
there is yet faint outline Of the stain
that will often come out in the subse-
quent treatment. Do not let the fabric
be in more than two minutes, as there is
risk of disorganizing it. Then throw it
into the hot water, let it stand a few
minutes, rinse thoroughly in two or
three waters and hang to dry in the SUM-
Do not let a drop of it fall upon colored
cloth, and if it falls upon any dry cloth
wash out Immediately or it may eat a
hole. Do not keep the hands in it long,
say half an hour, or it will remove the
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