The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

Domestic Recipes.
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dough as will make loaf of bread
work oue-half pound of raisins, tie
closely in a cloth and boil one hour
aud a half.
To Keep Game. - Game of all
kinds-birds, rabbits or deer-can
be kept sweet a long time by put
ting finely pulyeYized charcoal in
thin muslin bag aud placing IL in the
game. Change the charcoal every
day. Wash clean befcIe cooking.
Sour Milk Pancak es.-Add enough
-four to one quart Of sour mix to
make thick batter; leave it over
night; in the morning add two we'll
beaten eggs, salt, aud half a tea
spoonful of soda dissolved IN very
little boiling water; cook at once.
Hazel-nut Butter. -Scald and then
blanch, by pairing off the inner skin,
q pint of hazel nuts; pound them to
paste in mortar, adding gradu-
ally small quantity of butter. 1t
is excellent, either eaten on fowl or
to flavor the most delicate sauce.
Walfies.-Two eggs, one pint of
-four, one and a quarter cupfuls of
milk, one teaspoonful yeast-powder,
one teaspoOnful of lard, and salt.
Mix yeast-powde and salt in -four,
rub in butter, then add the beaten
yolks and milk mixed; and, lastly,
the beaten whites. Bake it imme-
diately.
Macaroons--A Are very nice made of
hazel-nuts instead of almonds by the
following recipe: Whites of four
eggs well beaten, one pound sugar
stirred in gradually, one pound nnts
scalded, skinned and pounded with a
little of the sugar, and then stirred
in with the sugar aud eggs. Drop
from teaspoon on buttered paper
or tins.
Feather Sauce.-Half cup butter,
one cup sugar; beat it to a cream.
Then make a paste by putting a lit
tie -four or corn starch into a little
cold mater to mix it; then add hot
water; boil and strain--use a cupful
of this. Put both aside t. cool, and
just before using favor with lemon,
wine, vanilla or cinnamon, and mix
by beating together vigorously.
Egg Mince Pie.-Chop eight hard
boiled eggs with double their weight
of cooked beef, very fine; add one
pound of washed and dried currants,
the peel of two small lemons minced
fine, quarter of a pound of candied
orange and citron cut thin, seven
tablespoonful of sweet wine; mace,
nutmeg, salt aud sugar to the taste;
mix all well together and press into
jar for use.
Salt on Steak.-It is much better
to broil or fry the steak without
sailing, adding the salt afterward, as
the salt draws the juice out of the
meat if put on before it is cooked,
thereby making it dry and indiges-
tible. In cooking steak the. object is
to keep in the juice as much as pos
sible, hence the meat should be
scared over as quickly as possible on
both sides, and frequently turned to
preserve the juice.
Water Rising Bread.-Take quart
pitcher and spoon, scald them, and
then fill the pitcher halt full OF boil
ing water; cool to the temperature
OF good hot dish water; stir in flour
to make batter as thick as for -four
pancakes; add quarter teaspoonful
of salt and as much soda, cover it
closely, set where it will keep quite
warm, stirring occasionally. 1t will
rise in five or six hours. Some pre-
fer this to hop or brewers yeast. .
Preserving Oranges in Slices.-Re-
move the peeling from three dozen
oranges, and cut in slices q quarter
of an inch thick, taking out seeds.
Take their weight in loaf sugar and
make it into clear syrup by boil.
ing. Then put in few slices of the
oranges at time, and boil them for
ten minutes. Skim out into glass
Jars, and when all of them are cook
ed, turn in the boiling syrup. If a
silver. spoon is put into the glass
jars before the preserves, they can
be turned in while boiling hot with.
out cracking the glass.
Orange Cake.-Two cups of sugar,
yolks of five eggs, whites of two
eggs, half cup of cold water, two
aud a half cups of flour, two tea
spoonfuls OF baking powder, the
juice and grated rind of Que orange
and a pinch of salt; bake in jelly
cake tins. Beat the whites of two
eggs to stiff froth. add seven large
tablespoonfuls of powdered Sugar
and the grated rind and juice OF one
orange. Spread this between the
layers. If you like the taste OF an
orange, you will hike this cake.
Plain Pastry.--One quart of sifted