The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-10-04

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HAM PIE.-Cut the ham into very
small pieces; boil rice soft. beat the
eggs and mix with rice and ham; sea-
son with pepper, and q little ine-chop-
ped onion; put this in deep pan, and
bake a short time; when cold Il can be
cut in slices and put between bread for
sandwiches.
MIXED PICKLES. the beans till
they are tender, then pour them into
boiling vinegar; scald the cucumbers
and put them in; slice the onions and
the caulihowers and scald them; tie two
ounces of allspice, two of cloves and .
quarter pound cinnamon bark in q bag
and put in. III II
To PICKLE PEAcHEs.-One gallon 81
vinegar, four pounds of brown sugar,
five or six cloves in each peach; make
the vinegar hot, add the sugar, boil and
skim it we'll; pour the vinegar boiling
hot over them, then cover, and set in .
cold place for ten days; drain OF vine
gar, make it hot, skim again, and pour
It over the peaches. Let them become
cold. Secure as for jam. Unripe peach
es are best. ~,
VEAL LOAF.-To three pounds of veal
and three-quarters of pound of salt
pork, chopped very fine together (hav-
ing removed all lean parts, and the rind
from the pork add half dozen rolled
crackers, two eggs, and pepper. Nix
together, and press firmly into q baking
dish; put bits of butter over thet top, and
spread with rolled crackers (one-half
DOZEN bake three-quarters of an hour,
and slice when cold.
SPONGE DRoPs.-Mix half pound pow
dered sugar and the yelks Of four eggs
well together, add quarter pound flour,
the juice of one lemon and half the rind !;
then add in small quantities the well
beaten whites; drop on buttered paper
two or three inches apart. Try one.
and If it runs, beat the mixture wen,
and add a little flour. The oven
should be very hot 1.-THE cakes delicately
Drowned.
To SET THE Color IN Stockings
When washed for the first time, use 4
little ox-gall Git can be procured at the
druggist's) use it in the first water on
~; also have one teaspoonful Of pow
dered borax to every pail of hot water.
Use very little soap. After the first use
of ox-gall borax will answer every pur-
pose. Do not let the stockings remain
long in any water; hang in the shade to
dry.
BAKED HAM.-Make thick paste OF
-four and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with il, bone and all;
put in a pan on a spider, or two muffin
rings, or any thing that win keep It an
inch from the bottom, and bake In 4 hot
oven; If small ham, fifteen minutes for
each pound; If large, twenty minutes j
the oven should be hot when put In.
The paste forms hard crust round the
ham, and the sldn comes on Nth D. |
Slice very thin, when cold, for sand |
witches. snzss
DRIED FRuITs.-A bushel pf.driea axJ4I
pies, weighing abort fifty pounds, wIIi
furnish about seven pounds of GOOD |
dried fruit, or, If the cores are not cut |
out, nor the skins rem0Feds t31ere WIN |
be nine dried pounds here Is co1se
quently about eighty-twp per cent. of |
water in the apples; but fruits generally |
have about eighty-five percent T0nu1- |
toes have a much larger per 1centaee. 20 |
that one bushel viii dry xldwn 20 t6fee
pounds. In drying peaolIes, ia AIM
and stones being ren0xcds IL eqniree
ten fresh bushels % make ON dried
busheI. = sss 49, 1919 80
To CAN GRAPHS Fake y0ur iol1iscezsI
IF grapes, look theni' 0vet q refiIiy. cuts
ng out all the inapsr1sct onos With 81
pair Of scissors; then lay them - close
" az D0Gsiblo without crnah = into q,
:ans. Take your wash-boiIer, nv 81
'olded towel on the bottom, Set TIE 6S4s
# grapes in as closely IS they VII stand. i
For boiler that win hold q dozen oanD|
pour in about two-thirxls "a . pail q
old water. Set the bajlef on th6 Hqte.
md let it heat slowly. : When boiline,
allow it TO boil twenty minutess thsn 81
t off. Have boiling sirup Of sugar ind
water, fill up the cans and seal them.
We put up all our sllia1l lp11k IL that
way, and the cans never break unless
,ver-ripe. sF tsss9 a. Ass