Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


FITs.-Put drop Of spirits Of inter into
the water the bird drinks.
EXCELLENT SUET PUDDING.-One cup
suet: one cup sweet milk; one cup molass-
es; one cup raisins; three and a half cups
flour. Boil without stopping for three
hours, and serve with sauce.
SAUCE FOR PUDDINGs.-One pint G su-
gar; one tablespoon of vinegar; butter size
of an egg; one tablespoon of flour. Fla
vor with lemon or vanilla, and boil for
five minutes in a pint of water.
How TO USE PIECES OF SOAP TOO
SMALL FOR USE ON THE WAsH-sTAND.-
Make square flannel bag the size you
require; leave one end partly open and
put in the pieces as they accumulate;
when it is full basic up the opening and
it makes nice bath-tub arrangement.
CABBAGE SALAD.-One small cabbage
or half large one; one cup of vinegar
two teaspoons salt; one of pepper; one of
mustard; six tablespoons sweet milk; two
full tablespoons melted butter; one egg;
little sugar may be added if you like it.
Chop the cabbage fine, and scald with the
vinegar and spices; add the milk and
eggs last, and bring all to boil, though
do not let it boil Serve hot or cold.
AN excellent sedative water for external
application, for bruises or aches of any
kind, is composed of ammonia two ounces,
tincture of camphor two and half
Il, o1+
water two pints Mix and dissolve with
out heat. This is largely used in France,
and sold in this country under a patent
medicine name. 1t is an excellent lini-
ment for cattle when streng thened by the
addition OF ten drachms more ammonia.
Scientific Amer5can.
LIGHT PoT-PIE CRUsT.-One pint sour
milk or buttermilk, one tea-cup sour
cream, and one teaspOOnful of soda; mix
hard like bread, and let rise one hour;
never roll or cut it, but nip it off in pieces
the size you wish; boil thirty minutes :;
let the pot be uncovered the first fifteen
minutes, and then cover closely. Be sure
that it does not stop boiling from the time
the crust is put in until it is taken up,
and it will always be as light as a puff, if
not too much crowded in the pot.
A RED ink for marking clothes, which
is not attacked by soap, alkalies or acids
is prepared as follows: Enough of fine
~ powdered cinnibar to form a moderate
thick liquid is very intimately mixed
with egg alDumen previously diluted with
an equal bulk of water and beaten to
froth, and filtered through fine linen
Marks formed on cloth with this LIQUID by
means of quill are fixed after they have
become dry by pressing the cloth on the
other side with hot iron. The ink will
keep in well closed bottles for a long
time without separation of the suspended
cinnabar. A black indellible ink is made
one and tWo-thirds part of nitrate of sill
yer in sixteen parts of distilled water, and
adding two parts of gum arabic and one
third part of sap green.
AN English writer gives the following
directions for cleaning clocks, which suit
all metal clocks, and the larger and
coarser they are the better: Dip a
feather into common paraffine oil, such
as are used for lamps, and touch up
all the oily places of the clock, especially
axles and holes, then let the clock stand
few hours, give more paraffine, and
touch oftener if you think it is better for
it. Afterward strew strong washing
powder among the wheels, ETC., and
plunge the clock into a strong solution OF
the same in boiling water. Let it lie
therein till the water gets cool enough to
place your hands in, when, with tooth
brush rubbed with soap, wash out the
dirt from the works. Atterward cleanse
completely from all traces of soap and
powder in plenty of warm water, and the
operation is complete, the clock not hav-
ing required to be taken asunder at ALL
Many an old clock could be cleaned by
this method, which if taken asunder, even
by skilled hands, would never tick again,
owing to fresh portions of wheels beng
placed in contact