The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-11-21
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

"A little soda water will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion.-Bos-
ton Budget.
Every good pasture must contain a
luxuriant growth of tender and nutri-
tive grasses, cool shade, and a per-
manent supply of pure water.
If you wish to keep. sharp knife
don't put 1t in hot grease; stir your
potatoes or turn meat with fork or en-
old case knife kept on purpose.
-Doughnuts: One cup sugar, one
egg, one cup sweet milk, butter size of
an egg. one teaspoon soda, two tea
spoons cream tartar; flour to roll well.
The Household.
Dried cherries and plums are very
nice for pies or as sauce in winter.
Stone them and half dry them, then
pack them in jars with sugar strewn
between the layers. =. Examiner.
The transformations of nature are
wonderful. Put herring in a tin box
with some cotton-seed oil and it imme-
diately turns into sardine.
ptia Call.
Cookies: One cup sugar. one-half
cup butter. one-half cup sweet milk,
one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in the
milk. flour to roll well. Cut in squares
quite thin. Brisk Chicago Jour
nal.
One ounce oil of lavender mixed
with one quart of water or alcohol and
sprinkled about room will rid it of
flies. One who knows, says that four
applications at intervals will be sufficient
to drive away . host.-Indianapoli
Journal.
To make orange "foat" take one
quart of water, the juice and pulp of
two lemons, one coffee-cup of sugar.
When boiling hot add four tablespoon
fuls OF corn-starch. Let it boil fifteen
minutes. stirring all the time. When
cold pour it over four or five oranges
that have been sliced into glass dish,
and over the whole spread the beaten
whites of three eggs, sweetened and
Favored with vanilla. The Caterer.
Halls Journal of Health SAYS that
half a teaspoonful of common table salt
dissolved in little cold water and
drank will instantly relieve heartburn
or dyspepsia. If taken every morning
before breakfast, increasing the quantity
gradually to a teaspoonful of salt and a
tumbler of water. it will. in a few days,
cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if
at the same time due attention is paid
to the diet.
"A new way to make an apple
pudding is to make batter of flour,
sweet milk and one egg. with baking
powder, in proper proportion; pare and
core six tart apples, stew them in
very little water until they are quito
soft, then beat the apples into the
batter. This is to be baked in buttered
earthen pie plate; it should be a deep
plate; this is to be eaten with cream
and sugar, or if is an impossibility use
butter instead.-Boston Globe.
-Buttermilk Bread: Put two pounds
best -four into bowl, one teaspoonful
of salt, two of baking powder, two OF
cream of tartar, mix well; then put one
and Tablespoonful baking soda into
cup, break all humps, add a little
buttermilk, blend; then fill up the cup,
pour this on the flour, mix very well;
add more buttermilk till it is moist
enough; work it well, put it on the
pasteboard and knead it, form into
ball. lay the hand flat on it, and press
it into a round cake one inch thick, cut
into four, bake in a rather QUICK oven;
it will rise very much. About one pint
of milk will be enough for above quantity
of four.-Detroit Post.