The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-22

farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

Ink aims can readily be removed |
by.oa-ing the spot in milk. Il
cling rbread Pudding.-Three and
q E1l ups -four, one and IL halt cup
mile. ore cup mOlasses, one teaspoon
soda; am three hours; sauce.
Sa. berry Short Cake.-Half cup
butter % one quart -four, and milk
to roll Dne teaspOonful soda. Bake
chin. snit and spread with butter
and Ii berries.
ecrbread.-One cup brown su-
gar. one cup butter, four eggs, one
err soar milk, two teaspoOnfuls So
De. ono tablespoonful ginger. Flour
80 mix 5oft, and put in moderate
oven
Waales.-One quart of milk, six
ege-. 1larter pound butter, a large
eiii ri Yeast, salt. Flour, for bat
tuI a nick as griddle cakes. Bake
in waffle irons, as long again as you
Bold iced to on a griddle.
Ample Cobbler.-Pare, core and
slice tWelve large tart apples. Add
90 them the Juice of two lemons and
the aratsd peel of one; sweeten to
tastf w very slowly for two hours;
turn into mould. When cold serve
With cream.
Caramels.-One cup of white SUI
ear. one cup of brown sugar, one and
a. { cups of molasses, half Il cup of
grated chocolate, one cup of milk,
Dutter he size of an egg; melt all to-
getier over slow fire, run out into
shallow pan, and with a buttered
bailo divide into squares.
Soft Holasses Gingerbread-Three
pin i'our, one pint molasses, one
pint sour milk, one gill and a half
butter, three teaspoOnfuls ginger,
tH0 ,aspoonfuls soda, little salt.
Boil mOlasses and butter together,
pour s. not on the flour, add the sour
mile wi5h the soda and ginger. Beat
il tIoroughly.
Potato Pudding.--Boilo one quart
81 poatOes, roll smooth, have ready
haif a pound of melted butter, six
eggs, beaten to a fIoth, mix butter
with 1llf q pound of sugar, stir in
eggs ialf pound of currants, one
nutmeg, mix all well together,put in
cloths aud boil one hour; eaten with
sauce.
Rolls.-Three pints of flour, sifted,
two .elspoonfuls of salt, four table
spJouiuls of the best yeast, or six of
homemade yeast, a pint of luke
warm water, half q pint more of
warm water, and little -four to mix
Ia before kneading; knead it very
vol for ten minutes, then divide it
into email pieces, and knead each
sepMdtely; make them into round
Gales br rolls; cover them and set
them TO rise about an hour and a
hall,
Boly Poly.-Make crust like soda
biscuit; that is, put a piece of butter
size of IN egg to one quart of -four,
two teaspoons cream tartar, and one
eveu-full teaspoon soda; milk enough
70 make paste that will roll out
Into tEs, when rolled out, put any
aoYt OF fruit, fresh or preserved, fold
the paste together, SO the fruit will
not run out, and steam one hour
Sauce.
Bread Pudding.--Crumble enougl
stale bread to fill pint bowl, boi
one pint of milk with stick of Gin.
n9nOn in it. Pour the milk boilin,
over the bread. Three tablespoon,
sugar, two tablespoons butter, .fou
well beaten eggs added when tn,
mixture is lukewarm. Juice and tn,
grated rind of lemon. Raisins o
nyt, as you prefer. Bake three quar-
ters of an hour. Sauce.
For Toothache.-It is said tina
drops prepared thus will cure tn,
worst toothache ever heard of: On,
ounce of alcohol, two drains cayenn,
pepper, one ounce of coal oil; let i
s'and "a hours after mixing.
For Chilblains.-Glycerine, on
ounce: carbolic acid, half a dram
mix and apply night and morning
If the suffering is severe soak tn
feet every night in a tea made o
white oak bark. The remedy is sal,
20 be infallible. .s.ev..rs ra-
Fer Lockjaw.-Smoke the woun,
Or bruise with wool. Twenty min
utes in the smoke of wool will tax
the pain out of the worst wound AN,
repeated once or twice, will allay tn
worst case of inflammation arisin
rom a wound.
Headaches.-We note the follow
ing as a good remedy for sick head
aches: Granulated nuriate of am
mcuia, one teaspoonful; acetate c
morphia, one grain; water, half