The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-20
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INDIAN PUDDING.-Boil quart of
mlik and stir in tablespoonful of In
dian meal and 4 of grated bread or
crackers, 3 tablespoonfuls Of suoar.
eggs, a piece of butter as large as a
walnut, and a little salt. Bake it 5
hours. :
CocoANUT CAKE pound of butter.
| cup OF sugar, eggs, / pound of flour
cocoanut, which should be grated the
night before using. Work the butter
aed sugar to cream, add the yelks of
the eggs and mix them well. perhans s
minutes. Have the whites beaten to a
Iroth and add little at time with the
Hour. Lastly, add the cocoanut and
bake in a moderate pan.
GooD Sour FOR CoLD WEATHER.
Have an earthen pipkin, with close
hitting lid; put into it any pieces of cold
meats, roast beef bones, the remains of
any kind of game OF poultry. (Which
may be easily saved in winter time for
few days) then add enough water to
cover It, few vegetables cut fine, lit
tie barley, blade or two of mace, and
pepper and salt. This soup will be
found delicious; and in this nothing is
wasted, as it can be renewed from day
to day. By having this pot-au-feu MANY
a cold and hungry child may be COM
COOKING SALsIFY.-Seeing an inqui-
ry in this paper for cooking satisfy or
oyster plant, send receipt which has
been used in our family for several
years, and all who try it think it equal
to real stewed oysters: Scrape the oys-
ter plants, and wash clean; cut them in
thin slices, and put them in tin or
porcelain vessel, with just enough cold
water to cook tender, without boiling
dry. When tender, put on little more
than enough milk to cover them, and
boil up just once; then add lump of
butter, and pepper and salt, and serve
hot. You will find them very nice. If
kept in the ground as they grew, they
are nice till spring; but if gathered and
put in box of loan in the cellar, they
are more convenient, and keep very
well.-C0uatry Gentleman.
COFFEE DIsINFECTANT.-Nu
GUS experiments with roasted coffee
prove that it is most powerful means,
not only of rendering animal and vege-
table effluvia innocuous, but of absolutely
destroying them. A room in which
meat in an advanced state of decompo
sition has been kept for some time may
be almost INSTANTLY deprived of all smell
by placing an open coffee-roaster in it
containing some newly roasted coffee.
We have known of the most disagreea-
BILE odors from cesspools completely re-
moved by the employment of q little
coffee. The true way to prepare it for
this use is to break the berries into fine
particles in mortar and roast after
ward on a smooth surface until it as
sumes dark brown tint. Then sprinkle
it in drains or place it on plate in
rooms it is desired to disinfect. Coffee,
acids or oil acts more readily in minute
quantities.
To MAKE STRAW PICTURE FRAMES.
Pick out from bundle of straws
those without flaws. 1t takes five for
each part of the frame. Arrange them
thus: Put one long straw in the CEN
ter, short one on each side, and
shorter again on each side of these; sew
them together at the back with some
strong cotton. When you have the top,
bottom and sides ready, fasten them to-
gether at the corners in the form of an
Oxford frame, placing the top and bot
tom ones in front of the sides. Then
make four small pieces of three straws
in each, the center one the longest, and
fasten them crosswise to each corner by
means of a piece of ribbon tied round ;
the ribbon is to hide where the parts of
the frame are joined together. The
picture is fastened in with narrow rib
bon, crossed over at the back and
brought through between the straws on
each side of the frame, then passed over
the center straw through to the back,
and firmly sewn. This ribbon has a
very pretty effect. A loop of ribbon
should be sewn onto the top, by which
to hanfr tho frame