The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-12-17
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Damp salt will remove the discol-
grafton of cups and saucers caused by
tea and careless washing. Detroit Free
Press.
Wash dusty furniture with warm,
not hot, white soapsuds in which drop
an ounce of linseed oil in a pail OF
water; wipe dry before polishing.
For simple tea, jam sandwiches,
thin, dainty, and devoid of crust, piled
lightly on a plate, with spread napkin,
are a relished sweet-N. Y. Times.
When your face and ears burn SO
terribly battle them in very hot water,
as hot as you can bear it. This will be
more apt to cool them than any cold
application
India ink is made from fine lamp
black compacted and cemented with
glue. The finest black is derived from
pork fat. The glue is made from buff
falo hide.-Scientific American.
Mock LemoP Pie: One-half cup
vinegar, one-half cup water, one-half
cup brown sugar, one tablespoon but
ter. Bake in lined pie plates and when
baked add the whites of two eggs, well
beaten, with two tablespoons of sugar,
and return to oven and brown.-Detroit
Free Press
Ginger Snaps: One large cup mo-
lasses; put in pan, set on stove, add two
heaping tablespoonfuls butter and two
Of ground ginger; when it boils and the
butter is melted take off stove, put in
teaspoonful of cooking soda, and while
it is hot sift in flour enough to roll out
thin; cut and then bake-Old Home
stead.
Cinnamon Bun: One pound -four, a
little salt, quarter pound butter, half
pound sugar. half pound currants thor
oughly washed and heated dry in the
oven. half a cake of compressed yeast,
and sufficient lukewarm water to make
dough; mix well, cover, and put in a
warm place to rise; bake in shallow
pans in q moderate 'oven, and Just be-
fore removing from the oven dredge
powdered cinnamon and fine sugar over
the top putting it back in the oven I'M
til the sugar melts.-Old Homestead.
-Sauteing: To 'saute' anything
means to dress it quickly in a small
pan, with a very little butter, oil, lard
or dripping, doing one side at time;
two spoonfuls of oil will be enough to
saute a small chicken in; the art of
sauteing well consists in doing it quick
ly, to keep the gravy and succulence in
the meat; it is an economical mode of
dressing small things of every kind of
food; it is very different from frying,
which is really boiling in hot fat. and
requires greater quantity of butter,
oil, etc.-Boston Herald.
-Sweet-potato pie and Irish potato
pie are both well-known desserts To
make the sweet-potato pie boil meaIy
sweet potatoes till about half done, then
CRATE them. Beat half teacup of but
ter and teacup of sugar to a cream.
Add the beaten yolks of four eggs, the
juice and grated rind of a lemon, and b
degrees the grated potato. Then add a
vine glass of milk. Line the pie-plates
with this mixture and cover with the
merangue. White-potato pies are made
in the same way, with half the quantity
of butter.-N. Y. Tribune
"A simple method OF curing sunburn
is to battle the face before retiring
with a solution of tincture of benzoin
and cold water, in the proportion of a
teaspoonful of the tincture to cup of
water. Let it dry on the face for a
few minutes, then rub it with sweet
cream. Wipe it off soon after with a
soft linen towel. In the morning bafhe
the face in water as hot as you can
bear with sponge and then battle it
in cold water, drying it thoroughly.
Before applying the benzoin at night
be careful that all dust is removed, and
that the skin is perfectly clean and
pure. Take special care to get no ben
zoin in the eyes, as it is very painful.
Treat the face in this way for several
days and all traces of sunburn will dis.
appear.-N. Y. Tribune