The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

good meats foot oil will last almost "
lifetime. 1t is much stronger because
slightly elastic, and viii seldom wear
off the hair.
cr-nr FOR STING OF BEES. - TAKE
tomato leaf and bruise and rub 1t oven
the place where you were stung, Il
the pain leaves immediately. and there
is no swelling.
STALE BREAD. Cut stale bread IN
slices half AN inch thick; dip (only a.
moment) into tepid water water with a
little salt in il, and tEen into beaten egg
and fry in boiling fat You may send
to table plain, or sprinkle little pow
dered sugar over it.
PorAro PUEDISG.-P and crate po-
tatoes, sweeten them very sweet, and
add milk or water till 1T is about ss
thick as fritter batter, season with al
spice and little butter or lard. then
bake, stirring il often while cooking.
You can tell by the color when done.
PorATo CAKEs.--Take mashed pota-
toes, -four, little salt, melted butter,
and sweeten with little powdered SUI
gar. Mix with just enough milk to
make the paste thick enough to roll,
make it the size and thickness of . NUT
fin, and bake quickly.
BEAUTIFUL TRIPLES. Beat one egg
and one teaspoonful of sugar together
until very light, then stir in sifted Hour
to make a stiff dough, roll very thin
and cut the size of a dollar. Fry in hot
lard, and when they turn over they are
done. Take up, and when they are cool
put jelly in the center. r
WHITE CAKE-One and a half cups
sugar, mixed with four tablespoons OF
butter; break the whites of three eggs
and add to the butter and sugar, and
beat them together one and a half tea
spoons baking-powder with two cups
-four and one cup milk - add them Il
the sugar and eggs alternately, and
then beat as long AZ possible. Add the
favoring last.
PorATo PoNE. - Take one gallon o
of grated potato-yams are best-adt
four eggs, one pound of butter, one pin
of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda
one pint of -four, and sweeten To sui
the taste. Some potatoes being sweete
than others require less sugar. To sea
son, take equal quantities of cinnamon
ginger, nutmeg and spice. Bake I'll
thoroughly done.
Another Potato Pone-Take IL or
nice sweet potatoes - yams always pre-
fcrred-boil them Ill wei doue, the
peel, mash with pestle or roling-pir
and rub through seive 10 get out a
strings or tough fibres; now add suga
10 taste, a half dozen eggs. butter {
make it very rich. ground cloves,nutme
and sweet milk enough to make it tn
consistency of custard; you can the
pour the mixture in buttered pan. an
bake. Nice fresh lard can be used il
stead OF butter, but in smaller quaint
ties.
Guinea hens, it is said. in addition {
laying more and better eggs than con
acre of potatoes clear of beetles and "a,
swer every purpose of barometer
predicting the weather. These days al
prolific in disc oysring and inventiu
new devices.
Sleep in a cool room, in pure air, IN
use plenty of water. Remember, To
that no one can have IA clean skin VII
breathes bad air. But more than all.
order to look well. wake up mind al
soul. When the mind is awake the dul
sleepy look passes away from the eye
do not know that the brain expand
but it seems 80. Think and read-n
trashy novels, but books that ha'
something in them. Talk with Peep
who know something; hear lectures Il
learn by them.
PRESERVING FISH. flesh OF fires
fish, either raw or boiled. is cut in til
slices and plunged i'll bath of wat
strongly acidulatcd with citric aci
After two or three hours soaking, {
fish is removed aud dried, either in I
air OF under moderate heat In the l.
ter case one hour Is sufficient: in t
former there should he I'M exposure
five or six days NJ. D'Amelie sta
that fish thus treated will keep al
where for an indefinite period, and th
it becomes as hard as wood. To prepa
- g. ,,.e thr.a ar tnur dave SON l. mar