The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-02-27
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

EAkM AND ClkESlUEs
For CLEANING MARBLE.-Take 2
ounces of common soda, ounce of
powdered pumice stone, / ounce OF
powdered chalk. Make into paste
with water; rub it well on the marble;
let it dry, and wash off.
VEAL CRoQUErTEs.-Chop cold veal
very fine and half as much bread-crumbs
as veal; season with mace, pepper and
salt; add raw egg; roll thin in pieces
about three inches long; dip in egg
crumbs and fry in hot fat.
Hot SLAw.-3 spoonfuls of sugar,
of salt, cup of vinegar, spoonful of
mustard; mix well together. Chop the
cabbage very fine; put it in the pan
with tablespoonful of water; let it get
well heated through, and then pour the
above ingredients over it.
B1RD's-NEsr PUDDING. and
core tart apples; fill the openings with
butter and sugar; put into pan heap
ing teaspoonful each of dry tapioca and
sugar to each apple; then put in the ap-
plies; sprinkle over them cinnamon; fill
the pan nearly full of water and bake.
PRUNE PIEs.-Take pound of prunes
and soak them over night, so that the
stones will slip out easily; stew in some
water with as many raisins as you wish,
and sweeten; use less water than for
sauce; when both are soft CRATE in the
rind of lemons and fill the pie, allow
ing 2 crusts.
TAPIOCA MERINGUE.-2 cups of
tapioca; soak in the milk or water over
night; in the morning put it on to boil,
adding a little milk at time until it be-
comes of the consistency of cream; add
yelks of eggs; sweeten to taste,
flavor delicately; when cold cover with
meringue made of the whites of the
eggs.
MoLAssEs CANDY pint of sugar.
house strip, teacup of brown sugar,
small piece of soda. Put this in tin
dish and boil until done. When it will
snap it is done. This is easy to tell if
you drop it in water, or pour little on
the snow. Be sure and not let it burn !;
and do not put in the soda until it is
nearly done. Pour on CREASED tin.
When cool enough pull until it is white.
CREAM TAPIoCA PUDDINa.-3 tea
spoonfuls of tapioca soaked and boiled
in quart of milk half an hour. Beat
the yelks of 4 eggs and cupful of sug
ar. Add 8 tablespoonful of prepared
cocoanut, and boil about 10 minutes
longer. Pour into pudding. dish.
Beat the whites of the eggs with Ia
blespoonfuls of sugar, put over the top,
then sprinkle cOcoanut over it and
brown minutes.
How TO KEEP HAMS IN SUMNER
The following is a Kentucky receipt,
and as it is from that State that the best
hams are exported, it can not fail to be
satisfactory. After the hams have been
smoked, rub the feshy part with mo-
lasses until it is well coated; then sprin-
kle all over it black pepper, ground
fine, and hang the hams in the smoke
house. Thus treated hams can be kept
for two or three years, but they must
be rubbed before the fly has touched
them.
LEMON CUsrARD PIE.-1 lemon
CRATE the rind and squeeze the juice; 1
cup white sugar, yelk of egg, 2 table,
spOonfuls corn-starch, cup water.
Mix the corn-starch with little cold
water, and have the remainder of the
water boiling, and stir the starch into
it. When cold, add the rest of the
custard. Bake in one crust. When
done, beat the white of the egg to stiff
froth, thicken with sugar and spread on
the pie; return to the oven and brown.
CHICKEN CHEEsE.-Boil 2 chickens
in merely water enough to make them
tender; take them out when done; re-
move all the bones; mince the meat
very fine; season with salt, pepper and
butter, and return them to the water in
which they were boiled; cook until the
liquid is nearly gone; pour into deep
dish; lay aplate over it; put on weight
and set away in cool place. When
ready to be eaten cut it in slices and il
will be as firm as cheese, and is very
nice for Sunday evening tea.
EsCALLoPED PorATOEs.-When the
potatoes are thoroughly boiled mash
them and rub them through a colander
to a pound of potatoes put about
ounce of butter and tablespoonful OF
milk; mix them well together, then pu,
them into scallop.shells or deep dish ;
make them smooth at the top, cross a
knife over them, sprinkle with a few
drops of melted butter, and then set
them in the oven; when they are brown.
ed at the top take them carefully out
and brown the other side. The dish OF
shell in which they are Drowned should
be previously buttered.
DELICATE CAKE.-2 small cupfuls oil
white suger, cupful Of butter, i cupful
of milk, the whites of eggs, l tea.
spoonful of cream-tartar, teaspoonful
of soda, and 81 cupfuls of sifted -four
Stir the sugar and butter together, add
the milk, dissolve the soda in a little