The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-24
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Table.

The Table.
Lemon Snaps: One coffeecupful of
sugar, two-thirds of cupful of butter,
two eggs, one level teaspoonful soda
dissolved in a quarter of a cupful of
hot water), flour to roll thin; flavor
with lemon; bake in hot oven.
White Pound Cake: One cupful of
fine white sugar, and half cupful of
butter; beat twenty minutes, add the
whites of two eggs, and beat ten min
utes longer. Sift one and half cup
fuls of flour and one teaspoonful of
cream-tartar together, and dissolve half
a teaspoonful of saleratus in half cup
full of sweet milk; mix all together, fla
vor with lemon or vanilla, and beat fif-
teen minutes longer.
-Tapioca Pudding: Allow half a
teacupful of rice or tapioca to a quart
of milk (nO eggs, pinch of salt, a
piece of butter the size of a walnut, a
little nutmeg, and sugar to taste; bake
in pretty warm oven, and stir it down
occasionally, and let it brown at the
last. This constant stirring gives it a
creamy richness-and if the rice or tapi-
oca be soaked in milk first it will be
better.
-Pop-Ups: Two eggs, well bea en-;
two teacupfuls of milk, and flour enough
to make thin batter; first mix togeth-
er the -four and milk smoothly; just
when they are ready to go into the oven
add the eggs, beaten very light; fill
earthen teacups half full of the batter,
with small lump of butter on the top:
place the cups on a dripping-pan and
bake in hot oven. They are to be
eaten with butter and sugar, or sweet
sauce.
Sweet Rusks: One quart of sweet
milk, three tablespoonfuls of yeast, and
-four to make stiff batter; let it rise
over night, and in the morning add one
cupful of lard or butter (if the former,
salt must be used), ribbed to paste
with one cupful of white sugar and three
eggs, reserving the white of one to beat
to froth with little sugar, and brush
over the tops of the rusks when done.
Mix with -four to make stiff dough (;
make it into small balls; let it rise very
light and bake.
"A Plum-pudding (plain, but good) !:
One pound OF raisins, one pound of cur
rants, half q pound of citron, four table
spoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of
soda, teacupfnl of sour milk or butter
milk. Sift the soda into the flour as for
biscuits, and rub in first the butter, then
the fruit. Thin it with the eggs and
sour milk until it is the consistency OF
fruit cake batter. Tie up in a thick cot
ton cloth, scalded and Toured, and boil
for four hours. This pudding may be
made with only one sort of fruit. Many
prefer simply raisins instead of the above
combination.
Il Miscellaneous.
Water and Grease Proof: A new
water and grease-proof paper is obtained
by saturating paper with liquid pre-
pared by dissolving shellac at a moder-
ate heat in q saturated solution OF
bOrax.
-Whitlows: A lady who has beer
troubled some time with whitlow on
her finger gives a simple remedy, from
which She experienced great relief, and
which enabled her to obtain sleep aftei
! many restless nights. 1t is to cut holt
. . in a lemon and wear it on the finger like
thimble-the whitlow being incaset
in the fruit.
How to Tell Furs: In purchasing
. furs the best test of good article Il
! found in the length and density of thu
down next the skin. This can be readi
ly determined BY blowing brisk cur
rent of air from the mouth against thu
sssetn of furs. If the fiber opens readily
exposing the skin to view, reject the ar
!. ticle: but if the breath can not penetrat'
a | it, or at most show but a small portion
: of skin, the article may be accepted.
(; To Clean Kid Gloves One dram
: of carbonate of ammonia, one of chic
: reform, one of sulphuric ether, on
n pint of deodorized benzine; wash tn
: glove in a little of the mixture as yol
e would piece of cloth; then slip it Oh
YOUR hand while wet and wipe with
J, clean, soft cloth until thoroughly dry
e let them hang in the air awhile to re
n move the unpleasant odor OF the ben
: zine. They will be soft and pliable ant
IS look nearly as well as new.
n Treatment of House-plants: L
e watering plants in rooms, discretion
8 must be used; cactus, cereus, and
n fact all the so-called succuients, requir
e but little water in winter; simpl
IS enough to keep them growing. Gala;
, and all that class of aquatic or sem
o aquatic plants will bear watering to sal
e uration. As rule, smooth-leaved an
r hard plants require less watering tina
le pubescent and soft-leaved plants. Man
g small pots require water every day
h sometimes twice day-they dry out s
,. fast-unless plunged into some moi
I material. The difficulty with amateur
X is, they usually give small pots too hit
e water, and large pots too much. Unit
N the true habit and necessities OF plaI
IS are learned, it is better that it dry sufi
ef GENTLY to droop little, rather than TIL
. the soil be kept saturated. Over SAT-
d ration kills more plants than too mue