Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-24
THE HOUSEHOLD.
CELERY ROOT.

CELERY ROOT.
Core one dozen celery roots, throw in
cold water and soak half an hour. Then
put in sauce pan of boiling salt water
and cook tender. Drain, cut in slices.
Serve with cream sauce.
MASHED (RRowNED) POTATOES.
Fill the dish you intend to serve the
potatoes in with mashed potatoes, and
after smoothing the top and sprinkling
with good butter put on the shelf of
hot oven until Drowned and then you can
serve.
WHITE TURNIPs.
Peel some nice white tdrnips and after
cutting them in quarters put them to
stew in cold water and when about done
finish boiling in milk with salt, d little
red pepper end a piece of butter and
serve plain.
One cup of sugar, three cups of flour,
a piece of butter the size of an egg, one
cup of milk, two eggs, one-half teaspoon
full of soda, one of mace. Mix together,
roll out, cut in shape and fry in hot
lard.
STEAMED OYSTERS.
Lay them in potato steamer over
boiling water, cover with plate to keep
the steam in, and cook for ten minutes.
Then serve quickly in the shell and on
very hot dish, with fried brown bread
and lemon.
ROAST SPARE RIB.
Take a nice spare rib with part of the
tenderloin left in; season with salt and
little pepper, sprinkle with summer
savory; put in a pan with little water;
haste often and bake until nicely done
and Drowned.
BLANC NANCE.
Boil heaped handful of Irish moss in
quart of new milk, flavor with cup of
white sugar and few drops of vanilla,
rose or kirsoh extract, Then strain and
pour into a mold that has been wetted
with cold water. To will turn out deli
cious blanc mango, while the iodine in
the moss is most agreeable to delicate
throats.
FRUIT CAKE.
One pound of -four, q pounds sugar,
12poupd butter, pound raisins. 1 pound
currants, 15pOGnd citron, 1 teaspoonful
OF ground mace, 1 grated nutmeg, eggs
/ even teas poonful of soda, Lpint sour
milk. Stir the -four well, cream the
butter, beat whites and yolks of eggs
separately, no matter in what order you
put in the ingredients except that as
soon as you add the soda the cake must
begin to bake.
MINCE PIE.
Take pounds of beef, chop fine with
3pounds Of suet; seed pounds of raisins
wash pounds of currants, slice a pound
of citron, chop quarts of apples. Put
in saucepan with cinnamon, cloves,
ginger, nutmeg, the juice of two lemons
L taaspoonful os pepper and 2 pounds of
sugar. Pour over all quart of cider, I
pint of molasses and a teacup Of melted
butter. Bake in rich crust without
tops, tnan bake crust of puff paste and
lay on.
CRANBERRY SAUCE.
One quart berries, pound graduated
sugar and 3 pint water. Cook ten min
utes, shake the vessel; do not stir.
(2) One quart berries, pound granu-
lated sugar and l pint water. Bring
sugar and water to boil, add the fruit
and boil till clear-ffteep or twenty
minutes.
81 One pound berries, 1 pint cold
water, p pound granulated sugar. Boil
together berries and water 10 minutes,
add sugar and boil 5 minutes longer.
Gently stIr or shake to prevent scorch-
ing.
Saving Grass Seed,
Where grass seed of any kind is to be
saved on large scale, of course the best
way is TO run the hay through the thresh-