The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-08-27
FARM AND PRESIDE.

l OSiAAShs ia DOt~ICS dlku AIuS.
Take of resin, sixteen ounces, beeswax
six ounces, best English Venetian red
six ounces. melt the resin and wax
and gradually stir in the red.
The juice of a lemon, squeezed int,
a glass of water, without sweeteninp
drank before breakfast at this season O.
the year, is said to be preventive O
malaria, and an excellent thing for al
most every one to take, particularly i
they are biliously inclined.
Corn Cake One cup sugar, two
eggs, four tablespoons of sweet cream
two tablespoons of soda, four teaspoons
OF cream tartar, two cups of corn meal
and one of Hour. Let it stand in the
warming oven of your stove five min
utes, then bake ten minutes in a hot
oven.
-Catsup.-Halve your tomatoes,
place them in firkin, with layer OF
salt between each layer of tomatoes.
Let them stand over night. In the
morning, add seasoning, cloves, all
spice. and very little mace, and pepper
and salt to taste; then put on the stove
and boil one hour Take from the fire.
and strain, and bottle.
"A Nice Breakfast Dish.-Remoye
the skins from dozen tomatoes; cut
them up in a saucepan; add little but.
ter. pepper and salt; when sufficiently
boiled, beat up five or six eggs, and
Just before you serve turn them into the
saucepan with the tomatoes and stir
one way for two minutes, allowing
them time to be done thoroughly.
TO drive flies from a room. make
switches" for the purpose; to the end
OF stick-a lath will do-nail a news
paper which has been folded the long
way and which has been cut into mar
row strips to within an inch of the fold
ed edge, SO that it is like a length of
wide fringe. Wind the "headingr
around or across the end of the lafh.
and secure with two tacks. Make two
or three, and renew the fringe of paper
so fast as it wears it out. If the wav in
which the flies have poured into our
house thus early is in any wise pro-
phetic of the season, there will need to
be an unrelenting battle with them for
a long time to come. and "switches
made and worn out by the wholesale. =
Exchange.
Frozen Fruit Custard. One pint of
rich milk, one pint of whipped cream,
yelks OF three eggs, one and half cup
[uls of sugar, one pint of fresh peaches,
cut into pieces not too small, or fresh.
ripe berries. Beat the eggs and sugar
together. Heat the pint Of milk almost |
20 the boiling point, and add it gradu-
iily to the beaten eggs and sugar. Re-
urn it to the kettle and stir it constant
y until it has slightly thickened, taking
ARE that 1t does not curdle. When the
'ustard is partly frozen, having stirred
the usual way in making ice-cream,
ldd the whipped cream; stir few min
ties longer and then stir in the fruit.
Tut all into mould, which place in
resi- relay of ice and salt.
The farmer who waits until after
reakfast to decide what he will do that
lay. is likely to change his plan half
ozen times before he really gets to
york, and the chances are then that he
Till that day begin one thing and the
ext day another, and by the end of the
'eek have half dozen things started
nd nothing finished. Plan out your
vork ahead always allowing for acct
ents. Get your tools aud implements
ITO first class order while you have the
pare time, SO that when the push comes
on are ready to drive your work, in
'ead of having your work driving you.
% one thing at a time; it may take a
tile longer than you ike but you will
i've time in the long run. /,
All kinds of berry stains may be re-
loved by pouring boiling water on, or !
'ther through, the stained spot; hold !,
lie garment over tub or washbowl and
sep pouring on the boiling water until
e stain disappears. This must be !
'ne before soap has been used or any :
tempt made to wash out the spot.
veet apple stains may be removed by !
piping the stained cloth in the JUICE of
pc tomatoes. then lay it in the sun
inc for few hours. 1t may be nee 4
sary to repeat the operation several {
mes. l have removed mildew by COW
ing the spot with mixture of soft
ap and lemon juice, and LAYING the b
rment in the sunshine. 1t is best not b
sprinkle clothes at night, when it is
t-damp, or they are likely to mildew :,