The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-06
mrs FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Table.

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80 them in their own liquor, salt al
sss,er them slightly; cook for Is mi
y slowly; drain the CLAIMS, chopin
an as fine as possible, removing q
= hard portions first; make bait,
sur eggs, with half-pins of site
snr and a pint of milk; get it /
'rooih as possible; mix the clans wit
1. use butter for frying. A small az
Sinu of parsley is excellent.
-Buckwheat Cakes: A lady saws:
a set little batter, day or so befor
rish to use it, and as fast as it rise
add little more water and flour an
4 down. Then, when 1 wish to use il
|urn out enough to use for that time
wing enough in the batter dish to rails
the next morning, and never pu
Is into that. Avoid putting in to,
eh soda, and yet use enough I,
eeten; thin with a little sweet mill
vbich makes them brown nicely) ant
Hrsys have the griddle hot, and th,
Lkss are fit for a king.
| Potato Salad: Cut ten or twelv,
z boiled potatoes into slices from ,
ssner to half an inch thick; put these
B the salad bowl with four tablesSoop.
of vinegar and six of best olive oil
b . teaspoonful of minced parsley,
IL that is not seasonable, the same
rutity of celery seed. Mix to a smooth
he the yelks of six hard-boiled eggs
Ih little water, and add also a mus
|dspoonful of mixed mustard. Add
|pper and salt to your taste, stir Il
sat, and let it stand an hour or So
|tre eating. 1t is well to add some
kof cold chicken or turkey, and YOU
y garnish either with rings of the
pc Of egg or any kind of pickle you
use.
Oyster Omelette: One dozen LARGE
y oysters chopped into small pieces
Va tcaspoonful of salt sprinkled on
y, and then let them stand in their
hkquor half an hour. Beat six eggs.
eysks and whites apart, the former
|sfrm, smooth paste, the latter to a
|nhotb. Add to the yelks a table,
|nfnl Of rich, sweet cream, pepper
2n]t in sufficient quantity, and then
W stir the whites in. Put an ounce
Is half of butter into a hot fryinc-
When it is thoroughly melted and |
rs to fry, pour in your egg mixture. |
1sdd as quickly as possible the oys.
j Do not stir, but with a broad
I'D omelette knife lift, as the eggs |
'the omelette from the bottom of the
to prevent its scorching. In five
utes it will be done. Place a hot
bottom upward over the omelette.
dexterously turn the pan over with
brown side uppermost upon the dish.
without delay. .
Plum Pudding: One cup of butter.
cup Of sugar, half a cup of cream.
p and a half of milk, one cup chop.
suet, one cup of currants and raisins
ped fine, half a cup of candied
30 cut line, six eggs well beaten,
grated nutmegs, one teaspoonful of ]
nd cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of
I'd cloves, bread-crumbs. Beat the
= and sugar together to a cream.
bread-crumbs should be dried {
'ughly. and passed through a sieve. | I
~ well together before adding the {
l-crumbs, then add enough of them !
We proper consistency. Put the t
ing into tin mold, not quite filing t
q boil it four hours. Sauce: Use t
Quantities of butter and sugar. i;
q the butter, then add the sugar. v
= them both until very light. Add v
lhe beaten yelk of an egg, and a e
grated nutmeg. Into pint of Il
8 water stir this mixture. q
Miscellaneops. p
. making any sauce put the butter r
our in together and your sauce !! :
ever be lumpy. q
God -four is tested by the amount fI,
'er It absorbs. Good flour is not 70
sthe whitest. - :.
swspapers are good for CLEANING o,
nnware, knives, spoons, mirrors. B,
- and lamp chimneys. re
nelly grated horseradish root gi
'ghly rubbed up with white sugar T.
ken slowly, cures hoarseness. ra
quai parts of soft soap and ouick- Sc
aaae INTO a paste and renewed "
: said to be a sure cure for a &C
re
aeneyer you see your sauce boil 70
y SIDES OF the pan you may know a., aI
our or corn-starch is done. ", WI
cooking fowl, to ascertain ~ ~
Is done, but a skewer into the nh
done. " '01uel the at
~, kerosene stains with Indian DO
sna when the oil strikes through tic
Z ana ,s put on fresh; repeat this me
! on is removed. the
French chemist asserts tbat;f zoo at
!. like coffee immediately he the
] water is poured upon it, Il win hoV
Wy. double the amount Of it's tirt
'ang qualities. pee
= soften / the Hands: Halt a pound ]
i a. one ounce of camphor per
! Gun ounce Of glycerine; melt all me
4. sau SET away to cool. Rub adj
= WIN this at night. a G.
N .drops of creosote added to a and