Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-27
THE HOUSEHOLD.

To freshen salt fish soak them in sour
milk.
Beets should be boiled one hour in sum-
mer, one hour and half, or even two
hours, if large, In winter
Apples will not freeze if covered with a
linen cloth, nor a pie or custard burn if In
the oven with dish of water.
REMEDY FOR POISON.
A dessertspoonful of homemade mustard
mixed in tumbler of warm water, if
drank Immediately, is simple but etici-
ent remedy for poison.
VINEGAR TAFFY.
Two cupfuls of brown sugar, one half
a cupful of butter, four tablespoonsfuls
of molasses, two tablespoonfuls of water
and two tablespoonful of vinegar; boil
twenty minutes.
FLAX SEED SYRUP FOR COLDS.
Boil fax seed until water becomes
Shiny, then strain, sweeten with powdered
rock candy and the juice of fresh lemons.
Dose wine glassful when cough is trouble
some.
LADY FINGERS.
One cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of
butter, beaten together, one egg, one-quar-
ter of cupful of milk, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, flavor with vanilla, cut
into strips, and bake In quick oven; roll
and press out with the hands instead of
with rolling pin. u
CARAMELS.
One cupful of molasses, two cupfuls
sugar, boil ten minutes; then add one
tablespoonful of -four dissolved in a very
little milk, one tablespoonful of butter,
one half pound of chocolate; boil about
twenty minutes; pour into buttered dish,
and, when partly cold, mark into squares.
DRIED PEA CHOPS.
| Soak over night some dried peas; in the
morning boil them, mash them with
lump of butter pepper, salt, and bit of
mint chopped fine, and bread crumbs and
beaten egg; stir well, form into chops,
dip in betten egg and bread crumbs and
| fry till brown and served with sliced lem
on or mint sauce.
ORANGE PIE.
Pulp and juice of two oranges, a little of
the grated peel, the yelks of three eggs,
and one cupful sugar, one cupful milk;
stir the yelks with the sugar, then table
spoonful butter, then the juice, lastly the
milk; bake with under crust only; after
the pie has colored spread on it the whites
of the three eggs, stiff1y frothed and sweet
tened; then set it in the oven to brown
slightly.
DRIED LIMA BEAN SOUP.
Soak one quart Lima beans over night;
the following day boil them until tender;
drain and press them through colander;
put them over the fire with pint of veal
stock; put pint of milk on the fire, and
when it boils thicken it with two table
spoonfuls of flour rubbed into one of but
ter, stir until it thickens and then add it
to the stock and season with salt and pep
per; let it boil up once: and the beaten
yelks of two eggs and serve.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL.
Select a small mackerel (which will be
more tender than large, older one), and
put it to soak over night in plenty of cold
water; pour off the water and let 1t stand
in milk for two hours; then drain
and dry in napkin, brush butter, or, bet
ter still, pour olive oil, over it, and brOil
In a double-wire broiler; when done,
plunge it into hot water moment, which
swells it and makes it look fat; serve with
melted butter containing lemon juice and
chopped parsley.
| FINE JELLY.
Cover 2 ounces of gelatine with cold
water and let it soak one hour; add one
pound of sugar and pint of boiling water;
stir until the sugar is dissolved and add
pint and half of cranberry juice. Strain
and pour into shallow square pan and
set on ice. Cover ounces more of gela
tine with cold water and let soak; pour
over quart of boiling water, pound of
sugar, the juice of four lemons, with the
grated yellow of the rinds; stir until dis
solved, strain in a shallow pan and set to
cool. When firm and hard cut in little
blocks and heap on a large fiat glass dish,
the red and fellow jellies alternately.
Dainty Housekeeping.
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