Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-26
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

When loaves of bread are baked in
too hot an oven and the outside crust
gets too brown do not attempt to cut
it off, but as soon as the bread is cold
rub it over with a coarse tin crater
and remove all the dark brown crust.
Always remember that one of the
best appetizers is pleasant conversa-
ton.
1T is said that if each of the large
peppers is rolled in paper and put in a
dark, cold place it will keep green and
may be used for a vegetable until mid
winter.
When baking custard pudding or
pie, as soon as the custard becomes
solid remove the dish from the oven,
for too long cooking will make a GUS
tard Watery
delicious sauce is made from graf
ed horseradish root mixed with lemon
juice, little salt, and a suspicion of
white sugar. Served with cold meats
it makes them more inviting and pala-
table. This sauce will retain it's flavor
for some time if kept well covered
when not being used Made with the
juice of lemon, the root does not dis
color so quickly as when made in the
old way with vinegar.
One of the quickest and best methods
of cleaning the isinglass windows in a
stove is with vinegar and water. Dip
a soft cloth in the vinegar and water,
and quickly rub the windows over,
going we'll in the corners. The win
dows will remain clean for a long
time.
A little thought and attention paid
to the cleft overs" will transform many
of them into dainty and palatable
dishes. Even cold boiled cabbage may
be used by mixing it with a little
grated cheese seasoning and putting
it in buttered baking dish, and then
moistening it with milk and thickly
covering it with bread crumbs. When
baked this will be found a very delic-
ious dish
If the family, particularly it's young
er members, grow tired of the whole
SOAt-S e"Aio OSoiiOl1ANdl DIS
it is usually served, try cooking it in
custard cups. These are first buttered
and then filled with the pudding. Bake
standing in o pan Of hot water Cover
each one with tiny spoonful of jelly
and a meringue. In this form the de-
spised pudding will take a new lease of
life
Indian meal moistened with a little
vinegar or lemon juice is excellent for
the hands where the skin has beer
rOughened by work or cold; it will
heal and soften them. Rub the hands
ten wash them in warm water and
battle them with glycerine lotion.
In many parts of the United States
where fruits are plenty, particularly
in the neighborhood of canning and
preserving factories, small children
collect the stones OF fruits, such as
cherries, plums and peaches, and dry
tt EN-, finding a ready sale for them.
If a handful of these stones are thrown
upon an open fire among the glowing
Goals they will crack and sputter for
q moment and then send up a beauti-
full flame, and the whole room is filled
with fragrant odor.
The demand for sofa pillows is still
on the increase. The pillow covers are
now made to suit the taste Of the own
er. Fancy silks and handsome satins /
are put to one side for something
novel and unique. The latest covers
for woman's room is made of a piece |
of fine linen upon which her college |
friends have written their names; the !
owners fingers outline the writing in |
wash silks with the coIors of each .
writer's college.