The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-03-17
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Earthly mould should never be
washed from potatoes, carrots, or other
roots, until Immediately before they are
to be cooked.
10 make grating wax use four
parts of rosin, one of beeswax and one
of tallow. Apply it warm. in liquid
state, with small wooden paddle.
Hickory Nut Cake. One and a half
cups of sugar, half a cup of butter, two
cups of flour, three-fourths of cup of
sweet milk, one cup of hickory-nuts,
one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one
half teaspoonful of soda, whites of four
eggs. .a ,-' $685.
Pigs Foot Cheese.-Boil the hooks
and feet of equal quantity loose in Il
pot till the meat will fall freely from
the bones; season well with pepper and
salt; put into pan while hot and press
it. Cut in slices and serve with vinegar
OR Worcester sauce.
"A Bushel Box.-A box to hold a
heaped bushel should be sixteen and
three-eighths inches long, fourteen
inches wide and twelve inches deep. 1t
may be made by cutting the end boards
fourteen inches long and twelve inches
wide, and mailing strips to these GA
three sides, eighteen and three-eighths
inches long, SO as to leave the inside
measure as above. Hand holes for lift.
ing are cut in the ends, r .5u..}
Coffee Cake.-This is one of the
best of plain cakes and is very easily
made. Take one cup of strong coffee
infusion, one cup molasses, one cup su,
gar, one-half cup butter. one egg and
one teaspoonful saleratus. Add spice
and raisins to suit the taste and enough
flour to make a reasonably thick batter.
Bake rather slowly in tin pans lined
with buttered paper. s1. g. i ~
Best Method of Frying.-Whatever
in the way of food is plunged into
large body of boiling fat is instantly
sealed up by the formation of a film or
skin, which preserves the juices and
their fiavors, and excludes the grease;
hence scientific frying is really one of
the very best modes of cooking, while
on the other hand the stingy fashion is
the very worst. ....'....'1 ......s IL.
"A correspondent of the american
Poultry Yard gives new remedy for
chicken cholera, which he SAYS he dis
covered by accident. He cuts up onions
with their food. adding the onions once
a day for several DAYS, and afterwards
once week. In addition he mixes a
little ground ginger with their meal
every day or two. He concludes: Raw
onions and very little ginger against
the world for curing cholera, provided
the disease has not gone too far"
The Iowa Register calls attention to
the declaration of correspondent that
scarcely one EARN fifty of the corn housed
in bulk last fall will grow; whereas for
the two seasons past nearly every ear
would supply seed capable of germinat-
ing. The injury was caused by severe
frost occurring before the stored corn
had become sufficiently dry, and is
manifested by a very slight change in
the color of the chit or germ. Farmers
should make test by taking a few
grains from different ears, LAYING them
on some damp sand, covered with damp
feit and placing them in room that is
constantly comfortably warm.
Cheap Floor Paint. Soak glue over
night IN cold water, boil it to a jelly,
mix yellow ochre and whiting with
little water to light tint. and stir into
the glue, and apply warm to the floor.
which must be free from grease.
1t quickly dries, when it needs a
coating of boiled linseed oil. This
is not expensive, as half pound
OF the cheapest quality of glue
will do, costing twenty-five cents
pound, and half pound in two quarts
OF water will cover floor fourteen feet
square. 1t must be boiled in the water
in which it is soaked The ochre is five
cents pound, and quart of oil costing
twenty cents should be enough for the
second coat, which will dry over night.
1t is best applied early in the afternoon
some day when an early dinner allows
the kitchen to be shut up till next morn
ing Shirley Dare. =. .e..tf .s-,.-,|
Hooks in Horse.-The disease OF
the eye called 6 hooks is an infiam-
nation of the membrane which protects
the eye known as the third eyelid or
membrane nj titans. 1t is situated at
the front angle of the eye and serves to
remove dust or other matter which
might get in the eye and hurt it. When
this is intlamed from cold or other in
jury it swells and appears red, and some
quacks and other ignorant persons,
Knowing nothing of the structure of an
animals eye, and how it differs from
mans eye, cut off this indispensable
part OF the organ and so deprive the
poor beast of the only means it has of
clearing its eye Of painful matter which
may get into it accidentally. Instead of
doing this, the Inflammation should be
reduced by bathing the eve with a solu-
ton OF three grains of sulphate of zinc
in a tablespoonful of water and giving
dose of twelve ounces of salts. When
the Inflammation is reduced the swell
ing disappears.-N Y Times.
Founder.