The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-27
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.


Float: One tablespoon of loaf sugar
and one tablespoon of jelly to tn,
white OF every egg; beat for severa
hours.
Feather Cake: One cup of sugar, ON,
cup OF sweet milk, three cups OF siftet
flour, one egg, one tablespoonful of but
ter, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar
and one teaspoonful of soda.
Pine Apple Sherbet: Juice of ST,
lemons, one can of pine apples cut fine,
sugar to taste, and after it begins 10
freeze add the whites of six eggs, well
beaten with two tablespoons of sugar.
Ginger Pudding: Five eggs, two
cups each sugar and butter. four Guns
Hour, one cup each of molasses and sour
milk. teaspoonful of soda, ginger and
allspice to taste. Sauce: Half pint OF
molasses, one pint of sugar, lump of
butter, little water, ginger to taste, boil
all well together.
Squash Pie: Take good sized
crook-necked squash, one-fourth of a
pound OF butter to milk-pan of squash.
Sweeten to taste. A bottle of cream !:
one quart Of milk, unless too thin. Sea-
son with mace, a little nutmeg, brandy.
and rosewater. One dozen eggs, and
little salt; eggs beaten.
Graham Bread: One pint water,
one quart Graham flour, one pint wheat
Hour, one yeast-cake dissolved in half
pint water. half gill of molasses, one
teaspoonful OF salt, one teaspoonful of
soda; mix at night; in morning pour in
deep bread-pans and bake about one
hour; 1T is too moist to knead with the
hands, but requires to be thoroughly
stirred with strong spoon.
Rock CREAM.-Steam one cupful of
rice in new milk until tender; sweeten
1t with white sugar and heap on dish:
lay over 1T small slices of currant ielly.
or any kind of preserved fruit. Beat up
the whites of five eggs to stiff froth
with little white sugar, and flavor with
vanilla; add to this one tablespoonful of
rich cream, and lay over the rice with a
tablespoon, giving it the form of rock
OF snow. This will be found both de-
icious and ornamental.
Apple Pudding: Pare and core
nice, tart apples and put them in deep
dish, make batter same as for griddle
cakes, pour over the apples and bake.
This is to be eaten with cream or sirlp.
according to taste. Or line deep dish
with crust made as for biscuit, fill with
apples, place on top crust same as for
pie; or take bread-crumbs soaked in
milk as substitute for a crust: pour
this on top of stewed apples and eat with
sauce.
The following is good way to
clean carpet which has had hard
usage: First sweepit clean, then put
three tablespoonful of ammonia in a
bucket of hot water. With stiff brush
and plenty of borax soap scrub yard
or two OF carpet at time, rinsing it off |
with second bucket of water and am |
monia and wiping as dry as possible |
with wooden cloth. Proceed in this |
way over the entire carpet and when
done open the windows to dry it
quickly.
"A coat OF gum copal varnish applied |
to the soles of boots and shoes, and re-
peated as it dries until the pores are
filed and the surface shines ike polished
mahogany, will make the sole water
proof, and it lasts three times longer.
To polish the Piano: Saturate a
piece of chamois skin in sweet oil and
apply faithfully to every part. Then,
with dry skin rub well, renewing the
pieces as they become creased with the
oil. 1t will require one hour, or even
longer, of constant rubbing to give it
the gloss desired.
Polish for Walnut Furniture: Take
three parts of linseed oil to one part of
spirits OF turpentine. Put on with
wooden cloth and when dry rub with
wooden. The polish not only covers the
disfgured surface, but restores the
wood to its original color and leaves a
luster upon the surface.
-Indelible Ink: Rub together nitrate
OF silver one ounce, creaim-tartar one
ounce; add aqua ammonia four ounces;
when it is dissolved add, first moisten-
ing with water, white sugar, six drains
gum arabic, eight drains; vegetable
black, forty grains; water, to make in
all six ounces; cork tightly and it will
keep any length of time.
To Soften Hard Water: Take two
pounds of washing-soda and one pound
Of common lime, and boil in five gallons
Of water for two or three hours: then
stand away to settle and dip off the clear
water from the top, and put into jug.
Can be used for washing dishes or clean
ng, and one teacupful in a boiler of
clothes, put in after the water is hot, |
will whiten the clothes and soften the ,
water, without injury to the hands or
clothes. An old iron pot is good to
make it in.
"A Southern method of removing
tains from black cloth is said to be very
'ffectual. Boil quantity of fig-leaves
N water until the water is reduced to
,ne,half its original quantity. Keep