The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-18
FiRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

1t is said that the onion is a great
sleep inducer, and about equal to qui.
nine fC- malaria.
In making steamed custards con-
slant stirring is necessary after putting
in the thickening ingredients, to get a
smooth, creamy result.
-Prune Pie: Three cups prunes, one
cup sugar, one teaspoonful extract
lemon, two tablespoonfuls vinegar.
Stew, seed and mash prunes; add sugar,
lemon, and vinegar. Have mixture
rather juicy and bake with two crusts.
-Housekeeper.
If you wish your floor mattings to
look as fresh and bright at the close of
the summer as when they were laid in
the spring, see that they are carefully
wiped off after each sweeping with a
soft cloth, wrung out of salt and water.
Corn Souffle: One pint each of
grated corn and sweet milk, two eggs
beaten very light small teaspoonful
salt and one and one-han tablespoonfuls
sugar. Mix we'll and bake in buttered
pudding dish forty minutes. Eat as soon
as done.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Creole Pudding: Beat eight eggs
with half a pound of sugar, half a pound
OF butter and the juice of one lemon.
Line deep dish with puff paste, cover
with ounce preserves, pour over little
of the mixture, lay on more preserves,
then more of the mixture and preserves
Bake and eat with sauce. Boston Bud.
get.
Cream Pic: Four tablespoonfuls OF
rich cream, one tablespoonful of flour,
one cupful of sugar, one cupful of cold
water, yelks of two eggs, flavor with
lemon, line pie plate with pastry, pour
in the mixture and bake at once, make
a meringue of the whites of the eggs,
spread smoothly on the top and brown
delicately.-Boston Herald.
There is no artistic reason why you
should not have wood-engraving hung
in an unpretentious frame in your par.
lor, if it is a good wood-engraving. If
you have two crayon pictures, or two
pictures in black-and-white of any kind,
wood-engraving is easily bought, at
small expense, which is really a master
piece in its line. This you can make
the top of your pyramid of the black
and-white group. Be sure to select a
wood-engraving which will show across
the room what it means.-Demorest's
Monthly.
Marble discolored by smoke can be
cleaned by benzine literally applied,
and rubbed off with clean flannel. II
not then quite clean, apply a second
time. Soap takes the polish from mar
bic. Polish with linen cloths To take
iron stains from marble, use an equal
quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol and
lemon juice shaken together in bottle.
Wet the spots, and in few minutes rub
with soft linen, and the spots will dis
appear.
"A stoned olive stuffed with WE'LL
favored chicken force-meatis delicious
tid-bit at picnic or for any cold lunch
con. Select the large queen olives for
this purpose, cut with a penknife a
slanting lengthwise cut in each olive,
and continue to hold the knife next to
the stone and thus remove it. 1t will
come out easily. Stone number, fill
the opening with chicken force-meat,
and if you wish to keep them perfectly
in shape tie each one up and remove the
string after few hours and just before
serving.
Pot Roast Ducklings: Putinto shall.
low crock a thin strip of bacon and a
tablespoonful of mixed spices (whole);
clean Or truss two ducklings and add
hot water or sonp stock enough to cover
up half way on the birds. Add parsley
and few celery seed. Place narrow
strip of bacon over each bird. Put on
the lid and set the crock in a moderate
oven, where the birds will cook slowly
two hours. Remove the ducks, strain
the sauce, reduce it one-third by boiling,
add gill of cider or claret, thicken with
Drowned flour, simmer fifteen minutes,
adding then a tablespoonful of lemon
juice and serve with the ducks.