Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Troy PUDDING.-One cup each of
chopped suet, stoned raisins, molasses
and milk, and one egg, three cups OF sltt-
ed flour, a little salt and pinch of soda;
boil three hours; serve with sweet sauce.
BUTTERNUT CAKE.-Four eggs, beaten
separately; two cups sugar, one OF butter,
one cup butternut meats, One-haf cup
sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour
(heaped), one teaspoonful soda, two OF
cream tartar Rub the black scales OF
from the meats before putting them in the
cake. Bake in two lOaves.-N. I. Times.
APPLE. JELLY.-Cut the apples in quar-
tiers. Do not pare or core them; dip each
quarter into clear water and put them in
lar, and place them in the oven to cook
until quite tender. Strain off the juice as
usual and boil with a pound of sugar to
pint Of Juice The most delicious jelly
will be the result, with the full, pure
flavor of the apple.-RuraL Neeo Yorker
To Cook SPINACH.-Wash and clean
the spinach thoroughly from grit, then
boil it in salt water; press the water en-
tirely out of it and chop it as fine as pow
der A quarter of an hour before serving
put it into saucepan, with piece of
butter mixed with tablespoonful of flour
and half tumblerful of boiling water,
some salt, pepper and little nutmeg,
and let it simmer fifteen minutes. Serve
with hard boiled eggs on the top.
DANDY PUDDING.-One quart milk,
yolks four eggs, two tablespoons flour
mixed with little cold milk; when the
milk begins to boil, add the eggs, we'll
beaten, and the flour; sweeten to taste;
flavor with vanilla or lemon; boil ten
minutes; put in dish, and when cold drop
in islands on top, the welI-beaten whites
of the eggs; put in oven and brown.
HONEY RECIPE White or brown sugar
twenty pounds, soft water six pounds, pure
bees honey three pounds, cream of tartar
eighty grains, essence of roses twenty four
drops. Mix the above in a brass kettle,
boil over a charcoal fire five minutes, take
it off; add the whites of two eggs well
beaten; when almost cold add two pounds
more bees honey. A pint of the decoc-
ton of slippery elm, of the consistency of
cream, will improve the honey, if it be
added while cooling .-RurGL Ne0 Yorker
FRESH HALBUT FISH BALLs.-TO two
pounds of boiled halibut add double the
quantity of hot mashed potatoes; the fish
must be picked in small pieces; add but
ter the size OF an egg, teaspOOnful Of
powdered sugar, salt and two eggs mix
them we'll and make them into round flat
balls, and when the weather is cold they
can stand over night, but in summer
they must be made in the morning. Have
kettle of boiling hot lard, and put in
only few at a time, and boil them until
they are nice light brown. If the lard
is not quite boiling they will soak the fat,
and if too hot they will come out black
instead of brown. If the fish, potatoes,
etc, seem too dry when you mix it add
very little milk.
WHEN houses are infested by cock
reaches they can be kept away by pow
dered bOraX. Keep it in tin pepper box
and sprinkle it wherever they go. Paris
green is recommended, but it is poison,
while boraX is harmless. Sprigs of win
tergreen, OF ground ivy, will drive away
small red ants, and branches of worm
wood will make black ants "vamose the
rancho" Scald your bedsteads in the
hottest soap-suds you can apply; if there
are traces of bugs apply kerosene with
small paint brush. 1t is a sure cure
Tenants of city houses are often annoyed
by bugs, and cannot tell whence they
came. Perhaps the border of the wall
paper might divulge their source, or the
cornices Of the windows disclose their
haunts. Again apply kerosene and they
will no longer trouble you. Carbolic acid
may be applied; if pure, the odor is not
as disagreeable as that of cOal-oil Paper
ing and painting are best done in cold
weather, especially the latter, for the
wood absorbs the oil Of paint much more
than in warm weather, while in cold
weather it hardens on the outside, making
coat which will protect the wood instead
of soaking into it.-WesterR RuraI.