Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
kTHE HOUSEHOLD.
AN APPETIZING CURRY,

kTHE HOUSEHOLD.
AN APPETIzING CURRY.
Slice two onions, one apple chopped
fine, desertspoonfuI of curry powder
we'll sprinkled amongst the onions; fry in
two ounces or more of butter or good
dripping till the onions are cooked and
brown. If your meat is uncooked, fry it
at first with the onions; if already cooked,
-four and brown it when they are nearly
done; dredge in sufficient -four to take up
the butter, and fry nice brown; add
sufficient gravy or hot water to moisten
the whole. few chopped raisins are
added, and if apple is not liked, small
quantity of chopped picked gherkin or
caulifower answers 5he purpose. Simmer
altogether for twenty minutes, add tea
spoonful of lemon juice, and, where easily
obtainable, a small quantity of grated
cocoanut. Serve with rice.
PINEAPPLE PUDDING.
Line deep and buttered pudding dish
with slices of sponge cake; cut some pine
apple in very thin slices, and put it into
the dish; cover layer of pineapple with
a layer of cake, and SO on until the dish
is fun; scatter sugar plentifully over the
pineapple; the top layer Of cake should
be moistensd with water and have sugar
scattered over it. If you are the happy
possessor of pudding dish with al
earthen cover, put this over the pudding /;
otherwise cover it with dinner plate, and
bake slowly for one and three-quarter
hours. The cover or plate should be but
tered.
CHERRY CORDIAL.
Take one quart of the best Catawba or
California brandy, one quart of the juice
of the best cherries and two pounds of
the best pulverized white sugar; add the
sugar to the juice, and stir it until it is
thoroughly dissolved; add the brandy, and
then filter through blotting paper.
TRY THIS WAY CT MAKING RICE oUsrARD.
Soak half cup of cold cooked rice in
one pint of hot milk until every grain is
distinct. Add the yelks of two eggs,
beaten with a quarter of cup of sugar
and a pinch of salt, and cook like soft
custard. While still hot still in the whites,
beaten stiff, and set away to cool Or
turn the hot custard into dish, and, when
cool, cover with meringue of the Whites
Brown slightly ard serve cold.
FRUIT PRESERVED WITHOUT SUGAR.
One of the newest California methods
of preserving fruit whole and without
sugar is as follows: Fill clean, perfectly
dry fruit jars with fresh, sound fruit; add
nothing, not even water. Be sure that
the fruit is closely packed in. Wrap
little hay or cloth around each Jar and
stand them in pan or boiler of cold
water. Let the water reach not quite to
the shoulder of the jars. Bring the water
to boil over moderate fire, and then
boil gently for ten minutes. Seal the jars
and replace, setting them upside down in
the water. Boil fifteen minutes longer.
Take pan ard all of the fire, and let the
jars cool in the water. If the fruit sinks
too rapidly, less time may be allowed to
the boiling. This is receipt every
housekeeper will require to test in small
quantities to become familiar with the
necessary length of time for different
fruits before using it extensively.
APPLE FOOL.
The proportion of milk or cream
would DE a pint to 2 pounds Of apples.
1t is impossible to give the exact quanti
ty of sugar also, as it must entirely de-
pend on the kind of apples used, some
apples requiring SO much more sweeten-
ing than others; it must be matter of
taste. It is better not TO put too much
in at first, but a certain amount must be
put in with the first boiling of the apples,
and more added afterward if not sweet
enough. The apples must be peeled, the
cores removed, and hen put into yellow
happy, with little water, just enough to
start the juice, loaf sugar and a few
cloves. Cover the dish with plate and
PIT it into moderately hot oven to cook
the apples gradually until quite soft,
when they must be beaten until smooth
with wooden spoon. The milk must
have been previously boiled, sweetened,
and allowed to get cold. Add this by de-
grees, to the beaten apples; mix thor
oughly, and, when steUed, serve it cold
in glass dish. Unless the milk be new,
cream should be used with it Ia equal
quantities. A bay leaf boiled with the
milk is a great improvement. Evapor-
ated fruit may be used for this dish.
For Tree Culture.
Prepare the ground most thoroughly
by blowing and narrowing. Really the
law regarding the planting of tree claims
should require four years of cropping be-
fore setting the trees. Set small trees
a one year old from the seed is better
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waiting at once to keep ahead of the
weeds. This is i'm portant. Continue TO
cultivate often until the middle of July,
then discontinue altogether. Let the
weeds grow and thank providence that
you have the weeds. They Will protect
your trees in winter by holding the snow
about them and preventing the terrible
freezing they would otherwise be subjec
ed to.
As to varieties, plant those which are
indigenous to the country. They are
rapid growing sorts and fully acclimated.
The box elder, the cottonwood and the
white ash. The latter is most valuable,
Set the young tree deeper than it grew
before taking up. Be careful TO keep the
roots from drying before setting out. If
ordered from nursery, when they ar
rive heel them In at once and uncover as
wanted to set.
EverRreens, some of them, do well or
should do well in this valley. They are
the most beautiful trees that nature tes
given US. The Norway spruce, the
Scotch pine, and the white pines are the
hardest and best. They are all hand
some trees. Plant them when one to
three feet high. Protect as much as
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