The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-04-06

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

bali cup melted butter, ohc-iai
cup hot water. one and a hall t"'.
spoonfnls soda, one teIspooni'I 81
ginger. Max soft and bake lii
hot oven.
Potato Pie. Boil common sweet
poti.toes aud strain through IA hne
sieve; To each pint aid one and
half pints Of milk, u little melted
but or, tive eggs. salt. AMI nntmeg
To the taste. Bake III a one crust
like custard pie.
Landy Padding Que quart Of
milk two large spoonfnls a flour,
the yolks of four eggs we'll beaten
and mixed with milk; beat the
whites Of the eggs separately, mix
with four teaspoonfnls # sugar aud
drop on the top aud bake.
20 Cranberry S iuce Stew two
quarts OF craui,erries, putting only
water enough I" keep from stick.
ing t. the bottom of the kettle.
Keep covered until nearly done
then stir in one quart at white su
gar and boil until tt:..k Tue color
is finer when the sugar Is added
lust before the sauce Is doue.
Apple Johnny -Caka-Scald one
quart of fine or me,,ium corn meal
WITH one quart Of boiling water,
add one pint of "lce sweet ,pplrS,
pared, cored aud chopped. Mlx
evenly, spread one in"n thick "n II
tin md bake forty minutes in Il
quick oven, or unM the apples are
tender. Serve warm.
Apple Bread. = Peel aud core
eight good sized apples aud boil
them IN water until tender. Let
them cool until little over milk
warm, then mix them thoroughly
into enough sitted flour to make ii
thick paste. Put int" IA crock, set
in u warm place and let stand over
night In the morning take this
sponge and make bread in the
usual manner. Ii is very paiata-
BILE and light.
- Hot Rolls.-A nice breakfast ar
rangement, wiere there are no dss
pept,cs Ia the family, Is to- take n
quart of suited iiuar, one and n
half cnpfui- sour mix, two spoon
fuls OF thick cream, IL tea>l"tOnful
of soda; star mp qllrkly aud Lip
into roll bakers, well hutlered, q,
cup cake tins, ana bake IN aqa.ek
oven. They are very palaiao'e
and easil, made
Indian Padding This is easily
made and YOU wall like IT: Salt a
quart of milk (sklnrned mix VII
tio) aud str III seven Gaping Table
spoonfuls of sifted meal, IA tea
spoonful each of salt aud gipger
or ginger aud cinna,uon mixei hal
and half "a tablespoonful or NOR,
Of chopped suet aud u teacnp %
molasses; aud, last, one egg 1
you want whey, ponr IN IA little
cold milk afteriI Is ali m,xed an,
really to pat 10 the oven. Bak'
one AMI hall or two hours.
Beef Soup lake a shin.bun,
of beef, pat 1T INTO a po, aud cov-I
we'll with cold water; when ), bsil,
put IN one can oil tomatoes, ob'
large c;tarot aud one siu''l, ,nr"Ip
the last iwo grated or shced tGc
one ONION cut ~ thin sllces; bali ;
teacup vi rice. aIid {, little piisir,
cut fine. Cover tue pot aud let /,
boil slowly for three hunrs. lii,
meat can then he taken ont au1
leave thick soup, OF ,trn,p II ano
put IN some yeriniriili for "A rhii
soup. The timex liz tie old fash
Toned kind"
Kentucky Corn Cakes. Take
qnart ut corn meal aud two aDl..
spoonfuls 1T common h,.ur; All,
salt to taste and mix ihorn6g,,l,
with n sufficient qu.,rtiiy of hn,
termilk to form q batter. Mex
melt n heaping tablt spoonful ="
lard, STIR 1t with the batter wei
and bake on Ia hot grIddle, pourin;
them tnin. By TINS Recipe tue fnl
havor'of the corn meal Is nt,ame,
uumsxed with the lase ri me- ! lsses
which so many people mlsi.kenl.
deem necessary to cause the cake
to bake brown
Boston Cream. qusrt q
milk, sweetened w,,iswhite sugar
on the stove 10 boil; break ti,
whites nf slA eSms l..l., .,I.. l. -