Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

SPIRITS OF AMMONIA, diluted a lit
tie, will cleanse the hair very thor
oughly.
MOTHS may be kept out of furs and
wooden clothes by wrapping the fabric
in muslin. Moths cannot eat through
muslin.
SUGAR SNAPs.-One cup butter, two
cups sugar, four cups flour, one egg,
half cup water and half teaspoonfu
soda, with twice as much cream tar
tar; roll very thin.
COMMON CUP CAKE.-Talle one cup
butter, two cups sugar, four eggs,
three-quarters cup sour milk, one tea
spoon saleratus, one teaspoon essence
of lemon. half a nutmeg. Beat well
and add flour, also fruit if you wish.
BEEF ROLLs.-Take the remains of
cold roast or boiled beef Mince fine
with small amount of its fat: add
seasoning Of pepper, salt and chopped
herbs Put the whole III q roll of puff
paste and bake for half an hour.
STRAWBERRY AND CUSTARD SALAD.
A nice desert dish may be made of
mixed early fruits, Strawberries, white
OF red currants, gooseberries and cher
ries, carefully picked, placed in alter
nate layers, strewed with sugar and
piled up with taste. Simple cream
should be poured over the salad
JELLY-ROLL CAKE.-Take four eggs,
one cup Of sugar, one cup Of flour, one
quarter teaspoon of salt, beat the eggs
and sugar together until very light,
then add the flour; beat five minutes,
then bake in a bread-pan i'll hot oven;
when done, spread the jelly and roll
while warm; do not cut until cold.
LEMON CUSTARD PIE.-For two
pies: Take six eggs (saye white Of four
for pudding), one and One-haf cup
white coffee sugar, grated rind of one
lemon and the juice Of three, and one
gill of milk Bake with only the under
crust; put on a frOsting made of the
whites Of four eggs; three tablespoons
full pulVerized sugar. Bake till the
frosting is light brown.
A CAREFUL observer asserts that
many Of the diseases incident to Doul-
try are due to neglect III providing
them with pure water This is eSpec-
tally the case in instances Of chicken
cholera. The omission to furnish
fowls with suitable drinking water is
one of the worst features of cruelty to
animals, besides being very unprofta-
bic to the person guilty of it.
A GENUINE erasive soap that will
remove grease from clothing is made
us follows: Two pounds Of good CASTLE
soap; half a pound of carbonate of pot
ash, dissolved i'll half pint of hot
water Cut the soap in thin slices,
boil it in the potash until it is thick
enough to mold into cakes; add alcO-
hol half an ounce; camphOr, half an
ounce; color with half an ounce of
pulveriZed charcoal.
GINGERBREAD.- and half
cups molasses, one cup butter, one
tablespoonful soda, and one teaspoon
full alum powdered. Dissolve the soda
ana alum in each One-third cupful of
water. Add soda water first and stir
well. Then alum water the last thing
before the flour Mix so as to roll out
but not very hard. Cut into cakes the
size of baking tins, having the dough
from one-half to three-quarters inches
thick Bake fifteen minutes.
THE simplest and most effective
way, and, indeed, the most econOmi-
cal, to preserve eggs without impart-
parting to them any foreign flavor, or
rendering them unfit for Matching, the
Massachusetts PJOughn1d11 says, is to
use the patent stoppered glass jar, with
yuIcanized India rubber joints to make
it perfectly tight, like the jars for pre-
serving fruits AS soon as the eggs
are collected, put the jar in hot water
and when thoroughly warm so as to
rarely the air, put the eggs in the jar,
the pointed end upwards, and pack
them with paper OF something to pre-
vent them from breaking, then close
the jar before taking it out of the wa
ter. If the work is sl1illfully done and
the jar is tight the eggs will keep for
many months and be as fit for the
breal1fast-table as the day they were
laid. 1t is said they will be fit for
Matching also year after they are so
packed, but, never having tried them
for that, we cannot affirm it from
actual experiment. E1change.
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