The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-22
FiaEsIDE FRAGMENTS.


yelks of three eggs, one-half cup Of
sugar, flavor with vanilla Cook as for
boiled custard. Put one dozen cocoanut
cakes In pretty dish and strain the
hot custard over them. When cold,
whip the whites and pile on top.-Bos-
ton Budget
Almond Pudding: Mako sponge
cake, bake in u long pan, have the cake
about two inches thick. Blanch pound
OF almonds, and pound them in rose
water, mix with four grated crackers,
six oggs. pound Of butter. pound Of
sugar, and u wine-glass of grape Jelly.
Pour on the cake, set in the oven twonty
minutes, cover with meringue favored
with extract of almond.-Ladies' Homo
Journal
-Cocoanut Cake: Half pound of
grated cocoanut, three quarters of a
pound of crushed lump sugar, six ounces
OF butter, the beaten whites of five eggs,
two tablespoonsfuls of rose-wator or a
iavoring OF vanilla, little grated nut
meg (this may DO omitted when tho
flavor is not liled). Cream the butter
and sugar, beat until very light, add tho
roso-wator, then tho cocoanut, beating
it in as lightly as possible; finally, whip
in the whites of tho eggs lightly. Bake
at once in a buttercd dish, or, if pre-
forred,. in littlo shells. Sprinkle pow
dered sugar over the cake when cold. =
Demorost's Monthly.
Sure death to the the carpet-bur at.
tends the application of tho following
preparation: One ounce OF alum, one
ounce of chloride of zinc, three ounces
OF salt. Mix with two quarts of water,
and lot it stand ovor night in covered
vessel. Next day pour it carefully into
another vessel, SO that all sediments
may be left behind. Dilute this with
two quarts of water, and apply by
sprinkling the edrcs of the carpet for
the distance of 4 foot from the wall.
This is all that is necessary. Moths
VIII leave boxes, beds, and any other
resort which has been sprinklcd with
tho solution on the shortest possible
notice, and nothing will be injured in
texture or color.
In washing woolens, tho water
should be of warm temperature, with
out being absolutely hot. and plenty of
ammonia ought to DO added to each tub
Very little, if any, soap is over ncedful
If tho woolons are thoroughly squeezed
in water thus prepared; nor will the
wooden full, as it does if soap is rubbed
on each article, and then the piece
rubbed on board. If soap is used at
all in cleaning woolens, it is best dis
solved and put into the water with tho
ammonia before tho articles are put in.
Woolens should not be boiled, nor is it
essential that th0u oh 1>o
They are best cleansed by putting them
through repeated waters.
Boiled Corn: A common mistake of
otherwise good cooks is to boil corn too
long. Whom it is young and freshly
picked ten minutes is long enough, and
corn that will not cook in twenty min
utes is not fit for table uso. Put it into
boiling water sufficient to cover it, and
take note of exactly how many minutes
it boils. A popular writer on cookery
recommends cooking corn cut from the
cob one hour. This could not fail to
mako it hard and indigestiblc, as corn
fresh from tho garden when cut from
tho cob needs no moro than six minutes.
Over-cooking brings it into disrepute as
a vegetable, while if fresh and cooked
properly it is delicate and hcalthful.-
n. Y. Observer.
-Sweetbread Croquettos: Pour boil
ing water on two pairs of sweetbreads
and cook gently fifteen minutes, adding
salt, pepper and littlo mace to tho
water. When done, drain from tho
water, cut them in small pieces, chop
half dozen mushrooms and table.
spoonful of capors and ono worry small
onion, put two tablespoonfuls of buttcr
into saucepan, and one cupful of milk
with tablespoonful OF flour mixed in
1T, stir in tho mushrooms, onion and
capers and allow to simmer slowly about
five minutes, then add the sweetbreads,
mix them in thoroughly, using care not
to jam them, remove the saucepan from
the heat and stir in the beaten velks OF
two eggs, allow them to become firm
over the fire, but the mixture must not
boil after tho eggs are added, turn into
dish and set aside to COOL then form
into croquettes, roll in cracker crumbs
and beaten egg, sailed and peppercd,
fry in boiling lard, serve garnished with
parsley and lemon sliced. boston Her.
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INSECTS AS MEDICINE.
Oid-Fime Remedies Derived from the Ami.
NAL Kingdom.