The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-20
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
TIE Table.
Cream Sauce: Half pound sugar.
one pint cream, one tablespoon butter.
and flavor to suit the taste.
Lady Cake: One and half pounds
OF sugar, flour and butter, one table,
spoon baking powder, and the whites of
twenty-four eggs.
Ginger Snaps; One cup each of butter.
molasses and sugar, one teaspoon soda
one tablespoon ginger; mix with flour
enough to roll well.
-Corn-Starch Pudding: Six table,
spoons of corn-starch to one quart of milk.
scald the milk and add the corn-starch
dissolved in cold milk; boil a few min
utes, stirring briskly. This same may
be cooled in molds.
Snow Pudding: Make boiled Gus
tard of two eggs; use only the yelks, in
a quart of milk. Skin and core baked
apples, beat thoroughly with the whites
of eggs to a stiff foam, add sugar and
lemon; pour this upon the custard when
cool.
Baked Indian Pudding: Eight table,
spoons of Indian meal stirred into three
pints of scalding milk; add one pint of
cold milk, large handful of wheat -four;
when cold, add one egg, half a cup of
molasses, or more if liked, and sliced
sweet apples. Bake slowly for three
hours.
-Tapioca, or Sage Pudding: Put one
teacup of tapioca or sago in three pints
of water, let it stand where it will be
quite warm, but not warm enough to
cook; slice half dozen good-sized, tart
apples, then take one teacup of sugar,
sprinkle in cinnamon and bake until it
becomes jelly.
Flannel Cakes: Mix one pint cold
mush with one quart of warm milk and
three eggs beaten very light and enough
-four to make it tolerably thick, put in
three tablespoons of yeast and set it to
rise the night before. Before baking
them, stir in a lump of butter or lard
size of an egg.
-Mush Bread: Put q pint of sweet
milk in saucepan, and when it comes
| to a boil make a thin mush with corn
meal. Cook it done and set it aside to
cool; beat in one egg at time till you
have put in three, add piece OF butter
the size of an egg and little salt; put
in deep dish and bake; it must be
eaten as soon as baked.
Charlotte Russo: Take one pint
rich cream, whites of four eggs, halt
pound powdered sugar, third Of box
of eelatine, one-half pint of warm wa
ter, dissolve the gelatine in the water,
whip the cream to froth, and place in
-four sieve to drip, beat the whites Of
the eggs very stiff, place in mixing-bowl,
add the sugar to them; mix the gelar
tine. mixing lightly; then add the
cream quickly, flavor to taste and mi1
gently; place in molds and set in a cold
place; the mold may be lined will
, sponge cake.
SCOT from chimney where wood i
used for fuel, is an excellent fertilize
: for pot-plants. Put into pail and pou
| hot water upon it; then water the plant
with this every few days.
, Good Mucilage: OF gum-arabi
three ounces, distilled vinegar thre
ounces, white sugar one ounce.
small quantity of sulphate OF QUINN
9 added to the solution is complete pro
lection against mold. Instead OF tn
D vinegar one part acetic acid, and nv
: parts water may be substituted.
To Take Rust Out of Steel: Piac
r the article in a bowl containing kerosen
3 oil. or wrap the steel up in soft clot
: well saturated with kerosene; let 1t n
: main "a hours longer; then scour tn
9 rusty spots with brickdust. Ii badl
n rusted. use salt wet with hot vinegar
d after securing rinse every partlcie
!, brickbust or salt off with boiling M
o water; dry thoroughly; then polish Q
J, with a clean flannel cloth and q lit
/ sweet oil.
e As the season for lemons is al
o preaching, it is well to remember th'
o this fruit is considered excellent In man
kinds of sickness-in fevers, in stomac
e complaints, and bilious troubles. Len
y ON Juice is the best antiscorbutic remeo
n known. 1t is said that the gums ms
n he kent in healthy condition by ru
t, hing them every day with lemon JUG.
ii Also that neuralgia may be cured by
le external use. warts removed, and Ga
le Jrrff on the head, destroyed by it,
10 ali this is true, the lemon is a more VI
Is uable fruit that is generally supposed.
d The lady who is now Crown Prince