Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

QUICK-BAKED BATTER PUDDING.-One
pint of milk, four tablespoonfuls flour, or
better, two of flour and two of corn starch,
two eggs, juice of lemon. Bake on tin
pie-plate in hot oven about twenty min
utes.
BAKED SQUASH - HUBBARD.-T Take
squash; cut in half clean inside nicely;
put into oven flesh side up, an hour before
dinner. Serve hot, with butter, pepper
and salt. Those squash not quite ripe are
also good thus baked.
To Cook BEETs.-The true way to cook
beet is to bake, not boil it. Thus treat
ed, and sliced either in vinegar or in but
ter, it is exceedingly palatable and nutri-
tious. Boiling extracts the most valuable
part of this vegetable.
HOMEMADE HAIR OIL.-Take a suf-
ficient quantity of fresh butter and filter it
through tissue or fine letter paper, and
then cut it with alcohol 1t can. be scent
ed with any essence that is liked, makes a
good, soft dressing for the hair, and is not
at all expensive.
DRIED BEEF FRIzZLED IN CREAM
Chip the beef as thin as paper with very
sharp knife. Melt in frying-pan butter
the size of an egg, stir the beef about in 1t
for two or three minutes, dust in a little
flour, add half teacupful of rich cream,
give a boil up, and serve in covered
dish.
WAsH-DAY PUDDING.-One pint of
flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful of
pounded sugar, one cupful of milk, half d
teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful cream
of tartar, one full tablespoonful of butter
rub the soda through the -four, dissolve
the cream of tartar in the milk and stir all
together quickly, just before dinner is
served; bake in quick oven and eat with
sauce, either hard or soft Baked in small
tins or open pans, this forms nice tea
cakes.
DURABLE BEDDING.-A woman who
has raised a large family recommends
housekeepers to take a good quality of I'M
bleached cotton, run up the breadths for
top and lining of quilt, and then color it
with any cheap domestic dye, such as ia
pOnica, annatto, white oak bark or any
such thing. Quilt them cOarsely and put
more cotton batting in than would be
needed for ordinary bed quilts. They will
wear years longer than ordinary new cali
co and are especially 70 be desired in large
families of boys. If desired, outside
spreads may be made of more fanciful ma
terials
OYSTER PIE.-For this pie, puff paste
may be used. Butter deep tin two-quart
basin, line the bottom and sides with the
paste, rolled to about half an inch thick
ness; take quart or three pints of oys-
tiers from their own liquor and put them
into pie; cut quarter of pound of
sweet butter in bits the size of a hicko-
ry-nut, strew these over the oysters; sprin-
kle over teaspoonful of ground pepper,
and dredge them white with wheat flour,
then strain the oyster liquor over; add to
it, enough milk or water very nearly to
reach the top of the paste; lay some skew
ers across; roll some of the paste to near
| ly half an inch thickness, make an aper-
ture in the center to allow the steam to es-
cape, also several small incisions with a
knife on either side of the center; cover
the pie; dip your fingers in flour and
pinch the top and side paste neatly to-
gether. Bake nearly one hour in a quick
oven; draw out the skewers before send
ing to the table.-Rur0g Neoo Yorker.