The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Table.

cup VI DutteT, one teaspoonfuf each O
SALT, soda, and ginger. Mix hard.
Sugar Cookies: Two eggs, two cup
of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one ctll
of butter, one teaspoonful of ginger, anc
one-half teaspoonful of soda Mix hare
and roll thin.
Corn Bread: Beat two eggs light
mix with one pint of sour milk, add {
teaspoonful of soda, one pint of corn
meal, and one tablespoonful of melted
butter.
Coffee Cakes: One heaping cup oI
brown sugar, two-thirds cup of thick
sour cream, two-thirds cup of butter.
milk, one teaspOonful of soda, ginger
and little salt. Mix soft and roll.
-Doughnuts: One cup of sugar, one
coffeecup of sour milk or buttermilk,
two tablespoonful of melted lard, one
teaspoonful of soda, and a little salt and
nutmeg. Pour lard over the sugar be.
fore mixing with the other ingredients.
Steamed Brown Bread: One cup
OF sweet milk, two cups of buttermilk,
one-half cup of molasses, one cup OF
flour, canielle is preferred, two heaping
cups OF meal, and ono heaping teaspoon
full OF soda. Steam three and bake two
hours. ~. !.
Lemon Pie: Grated rind and Juice
OF one lemon, one and one-haf cups of
sugar, one egg, piece of butter the
size of awalnut, one heaping Tablespoons
full of corn-starch or flour, one cup of
water; dissolve the corn-starch in the
egg and little water, and cook before
filling the pie. Made with one or two
crusts, rs preferred.
Pumpkin Pie: The less water YOU
use to boil your pumpkin in the better.
Slice the pumpkin, and don't scrape it
too much inside-the inside is the best;
stew with water, in which you put
pinch of salt, until the meat Is tender;
mash it and pass it through fine sieve
while it is hot; after straining, add an
eli nth of pound of butter, if you have
about two quarts of stewed pumpkin;
now, to every quart of milk add three
eggs, beating up your whites and yelks
separately; use white sugar, and sweeten
to taste, cinnamon and nutmeg; don't
use any ginger; when you bake your
pies you want a hot oven; pour it on
thick; thin pumpkin pie is not right.
Baked Dried Peas: Three pints of
dried peas, seven quarts of cold water,
three pounds of bacon or salt pork:
pick over the peas, wash and soak them
over night in cold water, drain and pour
them into pot with the bacon or pork,
the latter previously cleansed; cover
and boil gently; remove the scum as it
rises. whom tho ,,aaS baoop,a coff dra;x,
and mash them, put them into a baking
dish, smooth the top, place the bacon or
pork on top. put the dish into the oven,
and bake brown. The liquor from the
peas may be strained, put into pot,
thickened over the fire with Indian meal
(about four or five tablespoonfuls to
pint) and boiled gently about one hour.
When cold it may be sliced and fried.
Miscellaneous. '.iii
-Turpentine will remove ink from
white wood work. "a
-Cockroaches may be driven away
BY putting Scotch or other high dried
snuff round their haunts.
"A mixture of oil and ink is good to
,lean kid boots with. The first softens
Waterproof Whitewash: Stake half
! bushel of lime with boiling water, and
cover to keep in the steam. Strain and
Nd five gallons of hot water, three
pounds of ground rice boiled to paste |
md hot, half a pound of Spanish |
whiting, and one pound of clean glue
iisolved to thin paste. Stir the whole, |
ind keep it covered for few days. |
The whitewash must be used hot,
put one pint of it will cover square
Yard.
Coal oil-crude petroleum-is the
cheapest and quickest dressing for steel |
md iron surfaces that are to be kept |
rom rusting over winter, such as plows,
scrapers, etc. L don't see
Why it would not have been just the |
hing to have wiped Our laid away |
'tove-pipes with last spring, if we had
bought of it in time. Unused sheet |
ron rusts in summer more than it wears
n winter, and the civilized nostril is
become so accustomed to coal oil smoke
hat few minutes of it, more or less,
It the time of rousting out winter stoves
would add but trifle to the usual fume |
II that chaotic period.
To sweep and dust room properly
S an art, and ike all fine arts has
light method. Well done, it renoyates
he entire room, and the occupant takes
feeling that "all things have
become new" 1t is not merely per-
ormance of the hands, but work into
which taste and judgment, in other
words, brains must enter. Are these |
losets opening into the room to be
weptP Arrange the shelves, drawers
# clothing preparatory to sweeping
lay, then let this be the first to be swept.
;over the bed with soiled sheets, as also
il heavy articles that can NOT besne-
moved, first, however, having carefully |
lusted and brushed them. Remove all
urniture that can be easily set in hall or
djoining room, having first busted it;
hen, taking step-ladder, begin to
weep or brush, or wipe the cornice and