The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-11-16
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

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2 cups of stewed apples, cup each !;
butter-and sugar juice Of lemon.
FINE ICING.-14 cups of sugar. ! rn
of warm water; boil to thick s;rnrs
then stir in the whites of 2 eggs. ~
well all the time; add teaspO0ni.l =
citric acid. After the icing gets ala.
stir in the vanilla. 80
SPONGE CAKE.-24 tumblers suo,.
2 tumblers of flour, 4 teaspoon7nls
cream-tartar, whites of eges: m;r
sugar, -four and cream-tartar veil t.
gether before adding the eggs, and baie
in quick oven.
APPLE-BUTTER PUDDING. II Mint
milk, l or eggs, flour to make peettv
stiff batter, and little salt. FIT yonr
dish with sliced apples; then pour the
batter over them. Steam 81 n 4
hours.
CREAM PIEs.-1 large tablespoons,
of butter, 8 of sugar, 2 of flour, 3 err
and q little more than 4 pint Of MN
Beat the sugar and butter to cream
Beat the eggs well, and mix them viii
the milk, then stir in the -four. "a.
Flavor with whatever you like-if VIA
lemon, CRATE the rind and use some a.
sence. This is for one pie. tess a''a
SPONGE CAKE.-Take eggs; beats
minutes; then add II cups sugar. and
beat 5 minutes; add l teacup -four, and
teaspoonful cream-tartar, and beat
minutes; add / teaspoonful soda. dia.
solved in ! cup cold water, and another
cup of flour; beat enough to mix wen.
Flavor and bake in deep pan ina quick
oven. E{Sf75s
HOP YEAsr.--Steep handful Of hops
in l quart of water; CRATE 6 large pota-
toes; add l cup of white sugar, 4 up
salt; strain on the boiling hop-watsr.
Cook this on the stove until it boils IN
like starch. Put this mixture in stone
jar, and add cup Of yeast. Fit for
use in "a hours. One-half cup Of this
yeast will make 6 large loaves Of bread.
HOP OR BEER YEAsT.-Put handful
of hops into your yeast-jar, and large
tablespoonful, each, If dark brown sug.
ar, white flour, and salt. Pour over
these quart of boiling water. Stir,
and when luke-warm, put in teacup
of yeast. ] teacup of this yeast, strain
ed, will make 4 ordinary loaves Of bread.
| A Coon L1NlMENT.-The best lini-
ment for cuts, gall, SPAWN, poll-evil,
fistula, or any other of the external dis
eases that animals are liable to, y
made by dissolving l ounce of pulvsr-
lied corrosive sublimate and ] ounce
gum camphor and pint Of spirits TIM
pentine put in a strong bottle. Apply
with swab.
| COCoANUT BREAD.-To 8 half pints
of Graham flour and tablespoonful Of
cocoanut, add ] pint of cold wster;
when well mixed, knead on board I'M
til little flour is left on the board, say
fifteen minutes; make into rolls 2 inch
es thick and long; bake from 80 to 70
minutes in a moderate oven; when quite
cold cut and serve in thin slices. ia
MALAGAN PUpDING.-3 cup Of rice,
/ cup sugar, eggs, l pint Of milk, |
lemon and salt. Soak the rice over
j night. Beat the yelks Of the eggs with
l tablespoonful Of the sugar, and grats
in tie lemon rind; add the rice and
= milk. Bake hour. Take the whites
, of the eggs and beat to astiff froth with
the rest of the sugar, then add The
lemon juice. Pour it over the pudding
after it is baked, and brown it in The
oven 2 or minutes. To be eaten cold
LEMON PIEs.-Juice and grated rinf
of / lemon, / cup white sugar, | table
spoonful of butter, 2 Tablespoonful
It sweet milk, eggs. Mix it all ss ca.s
e fully and thoroughly as cak6 Il th'
: mixture is not sufficient to fill your pie
+ plate, add more milk. If you want ]
e superexcellent, beat the whites q
' eggs with 2 tablespoonful OF powdere'
# sugar for a meringue, spread i q
b smoothly after the pie is baked, an'
> set back into the oven to brown silgnuy
W RUSSIA CREAM eggs, / cup suga'
quart of milk, ] box Of Cox's geia
) tine, dissolved in pint OF warm watel
= Beat the yelks of the eggs and sugar e
d gether, and cook with the milk lhk
Y custard). Take this off tho stove, e.
l. add the (well beaten) whites Of u
IN eggs, stirring rapidly for few mo
NJ ments. Now add the gelatine, and tbe
IF a teaspoonful of lemon. Pour It into
,e pretty shaped dish to harden. and fur
IS it out on a platter, and cut OFT IN bloc Z,
is (as ice-cream). Make this cream Y
le day before you want to use 1t. 4
is COCKROACH TRAP.-Take an eaftne
D. vessel; fill it half full Of water; ts.e
ic piece of wire half as thick as PIP
g stem, and long enough to reach scio!
S the top ofthe vessel; dip snall P,e.
es of bread in molasses, and run ~
in length of the wire through the censel !,
~ the bread; then lay the wire across y
Sc middle of the top Of the vessel. A. g,
le time place the vessel, fixed as ABOVE
a rected, on the floor where the 'roacn
r, most frequent, and place pieces
ct boards or shingles with one end resnl
a ~, IT, "a, of The vassel. and the oth