St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-07-20
Useful alton.

For THE SICK CANARY Bird
Change of diet; bread moistened wit
cream, cured my bird.
JELLY CAKE.-One cup sugar, thre
eggs, three tablespoons of sweet cream
two teaspoons of cream tartar, one ties
spoon of soda, one cup of tea.
WHITE CURRANT WINE.-Take whit
currants, squeeze out the juice, put a
much water On the currants as there
juice mix the two; add to each a gal
lon three and one-half pounds of sugar
let it work two or three months; thel
bottle.
Corn CAKE.-One eupful OF Indian
meal, one cupful of -four, one teaspoonfu
of cream tartar, one! { teaspoonful O
saleratus, piece of b: er the size of ar
egg, two eggs, one CT III of milk, anc
less than cupful of sl.xtr.
COFFEE BREAD. - ~ a sponge Of
milk, butter and -four, little salt with
little yeast to raise in it; let it rise,
then work it q little, putting in currants
or raisins and little 6. II. Let it rise
again very light, then mold it into a
loaf. Again let it rise, and bake. 1t
must be kept warm from the start or it
will not be good.
CORN BREAD Two heaping cups of
corn meal, one cup of -four, three eggs,
two and a half cups Of sweet milk, one
tablespoonful of lard, two tablespoonful
OF white sugar, two teaspoons of cream
tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one tea
spoonful of salt; beat the eggs thor
oughly, yolks and whites separately;
melt the lard sift soda and cream tartar
into the -four and meal while dry, and
stir in last; then beat all very thor
oughly; less than one-half hour will
usually SUFFICE Jennie Bryant.
CANNING FRUIT CoLD-A lady in
Springfield, Mass, according to the
Union, has been making some interesting
experiments in putting up canned goods
without cooking. Heating the fruit
tends more or less to the injury of the
flavor, and the lady referred to has
found that by filling the cans with fruit
and then with pure cold water, and
allowing them to stand until all the con.
fined air has escaped, the fruit will, il
then sealed perfectly, keep indefinitely
without change or loss of original favor.
CHOCOLATE CUsTARD.--Put one and
one-half pints of milk, with a cup of
sugar in it, into a tin pail and set into
kettle of boiling water; then put one
half pint of milk into a saucepan and
add heaping tablespoonful of Bakers
chocolate, shaved fine; boil this slowly
few minutes; wet a tablespoonful of
Maizena, or corn.starch in two of cold
milk, and when smooth stir into the
boiling milk in the pail; add also the
chocolate after straining it, and lastly
the BEATEN yolks OF three eggs; stir till
smooth, favor with vanilla. Use lmore
chocolate and sugar if you want it
richer; pour into dish or glass cups.
Before serving beat three whites stiff
with spoonful of sugar ard lay on the
top.
How TO MAKE CoFFEE.-In the first
place, take care to get the best coffee,
equal parts OF Mocha and Java, already
roasted. This kept in tightly covered
jar, and grind it fresh every morning.
For three grown people take six table
spoonfuls Of coffee, put it in bowl, and
break a fresh egg into it, shell and all.
Mix till the coffee is wet throughout,
then put into hot tin cotfee>pot, turn
on two quarts of boiling water, set it
on the stove, and let it boil .briskIy for
ten minutes; then pour in one-half cup
full of cold water, set it ON the table a
minute or two to settle, and then pour
through little wire strainer into the
cofee-pot intended for the table. By
boiling a jug of milk, to use with the
coffee, it can always be good. There is
no possible excuse for bad coffee, and yet
how seldom do we see it good,
CURRANT JELLY-Put the currants
in stone jar and set in a kettle of hot
water over the fire till the currants are
thoroughly heated squeeze the currants
through a cloth or ons of the machines
for squeezing fruit; measure the Juice,
and to every pint allow pound of
sugar; put the juice into the preserving
kettle, and spread the sugar on pans and
set it in the oven; it must be stirred
occasionally to prevent it from burning
let the sugar get very hot, and when the
juice has boiled five minutes, stir in the
sugar, and as soon as it comes to a boil
again, take it off the fire and put it In
the jars; lay thin paper dipped In brandy
over the jelly when it is cold and paste
thick paper over the jars. ,Islly made
in this way is clear, firm and keeps very
well. Any kind of jelly may be made
in the same way.
To KILL BED-BUGs.--The oaly certain
cure for bed-bugs is solution of CORE |
sive sublimate, which may b. obtained