The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-22
FARa AND PRESIDE.


FL Gut bread fine for filing for fowls,
this IS better than to crumble it. No
sogginess.
Salt viii curdle new milk, hence in
preparing porridge. gravies, ETC., the
salt should not be added until the rest
OF the dish is prepared.
For general purposes on the farm,
castor oil, with little kerosene added,
is the best lubricator and preserver
For saws, mowers, buggies, ETC., it fur
nishes more body with less gum than
most oil The amount of kerosene, if
any is to be added, must be governed by
the purpose for which it is designed.
Lemon Pudding.-One lemon
grated, rind and the pulp, one cup
OF sugar, one cup of water or sweet
milk, four eggs, three tablespoon
fuls of melted butter, two table,
spoonfuls flour. Line a deep dish
with pastry crust, pour the custard in,
bake thirty minutes. Beat the whites
ofthree eggs to stiff froth, sweeten,
spread over the top of the pudding and
let it brown slightly.
Professor Goessman gives the fol-
lowing as cure for yellows in peach
trees. Apply potash salts to the surface
under the tree and rake it in; then
mulch with old hay, leaves or straw.
The German crude muriate of potash
will be the least expensive. Use one or
two pounds, according to size of tree.
Apply one pound in the late fall and
same quantity in the spring.
A nice cake with raisins, which has
the advantage over many other kinds of
keeping well for two weeks, at least, is
made from this recipe: One cup of SUI
gar, half a cup of butter, three eggs,
half a cup of sweet milk, one cup heap
ing full of chopped raisins. two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and about
two cups of flour; flavor with nutmeg.
Put the butter, sugar, well-beaten eggs
and the milk together. then stir the flour
and raisins in.
Rice Sponge Cakes.-Beat up three
eggs for two minutes, add the peel of a
lemon finely rasped. Boil six ounces
of loaf sugar in half gill of water. and
pour it boiling on to the eggs. Whisk
the mixture for twenty minutes or un-
til it is very thick. The success of the
cake depends on this being properly
done. Have ready mixed two ounces
of flour and three of rice flour and stir
lightly into the batter. Bake in small
tins, creased and sifted with a mixture
of sugar and rice flour.
New Way to Cook Chickens-Cus
the chicken up. put in pan and cover
it over with water; let it stew as usual,
when done make thickening of cream
and flour, adding piece of butter, and
pepper and salt. Have made and bake
a pair of short cakes, made as for pie
crust. but roll thin and cut in small
squares. This is much better than
chicken pie and more simple to make.
The crusts should be laid on dish and
the chicken gravy poured over while
both are hot.
"A dish equal to the best steak and
cheap enough for any man, is prepared
from a shank of beef with some meat on
it. Have the bone well broken; wash
carefully to remove bits of bone; cover
with cold water; watch when the boil
ing begins and take off the scum that
rises. Stew FIVE or SIX hours till the
muscles are dissolved; break the meat
small with fork-far better than chop
'ping-put it in bread pan, boil down
the gravy till in cooling it will turn to
a stiff jelly. Where this is done gela-
tine is quite supertiuous. Add salt,
and, if liked, other seasoning, and pour
it hot upon the meat; stir together and
set aside over night, when it will cut in
to- handsome notified slices for break
fast or supper.