Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-02
HOUSEHOLD eREvITIEs.

Soak the feet and bind on baking
soda dampened and in the morning You
viii be surprised to find the soreness all
out of corns.
Plush furniture should never be
switched Ia cleaning a room, but use a
bristle brush. A small paint brush is
desirable and is also a great help in
busting shutters, crevices, etc.
-Apothecaries have some very queer
applications for prescriptions. An old
war veteran limped into shopone day,
and said TO the druggist: 81 want some
medicine" what kind of medicine?"
''0h, some sort of vermifuge, suppose"
''Where does the seat of your difficulty
seem to be?' I'm my wooden leg. mis-
ter. It's gettin' all worm-eaten."
An articles of clothing should be
changed as frequently as possible Es-
pecially should wet garments be re-
placed by dry ones as soon as opportun-
ity offers. Cases of arsenical poisoning
have occasionally been observed as a
result of wearing goods in whose color
ing matter arsenic is found. Green
colors are most suspicious in this con-
nection.
Beef Fritters.-Cut some thin slices
from the undercut of the sirloin, and
dip each slice into a good batter made
of eggs, flour and milk, seasoned with
allspice, pepper and nutmeg; have pan
of very hot lard or butter ready, and
place each slice well covered with the
batter into it; fry good brown; serve
with mustard and mashed potatoes
Boston Herald.
An excellent recipe for corn bread
is composed of two eggs, two table,
spoonfuls of sugar little salt, two cup
fuls of sour milk, two and a half cup
fuls of corn-meal and one scant tea
spoonful of saleratus dissolved in one
half cupful boiling water Beat the
eggs, sugar and salt thoroughly, add
the meal, then the milk and, last of all,
the saleratus.-N. y World.
Dry Beans.-Wash two pints dry
beans and put in one quart of cold
water. After boiling add a small pinch
of soda and cook three hours or longer.
They may be seasoned either by cook
ing with few slices of salt pork or by
adding a quantity of butter when they
are nearly done. A very small piece Of
red pepper cooked with them is better
than black pepper.-Housekeeper.
Bonnie Bouche. Ingredient Three
eggs, weight of the eggs in flour, weight
of the eggs in sugar, weight of the eggs
in butter; flavor with MANILA, lemon
or almond. Pound the sugar; warm
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ually dredge in the flour and pounded
sugar, and keep stirring and beating
the mixture until perfectly smooth.
Then add the eggs, which should be
well whisked, and any one of the above
named favorings that is preferred
Butter some small cups or tins; rather
more than half fill them and bake in
brisk oven for half an hour. Pour them
out on a dish and pour custard around
them. The paste for these buildings
requires great deal of mixing, and the
more it is beaten the better the pudding
will be.-Det roit Free Press.
-Soupe a la Refine a la Menagere.-
Put in porcelain-lined pot shin of
veal, a chickens giblets meek, feet
gizzard and wings), cover this with cold
water, add little salt, and put over
the fire; skim, and after the first boiling
move to the side of the stove. Add a
leek, a lettuce, a turnip and carrot,
and after half-hour's simmering add
half a cupful of washed rice When
the shin is cooked, take it out of the
pot. Then pass the bouillon, only,
through a strainer. If the rice has
melted it will be slightly thick. Let
this boil, and thicken with the yelks of
four eggs beaten with half cupful of
cream, and let it simmer without boil
ing. Pour it into the soup-tureen, and
add the meat of the veal cut in little
pieces. Add also two spoonfuls of
separately cooked rice. - Demorest's