The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-12-24
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Tie piece of stale bread in a white
muslin cloth and drop it into the pot
with your boiling cabbage; it will abb
sorb all the offensive smell
The skin of boiled egg is the best
remedy for boil. Carefully peel 1t,
wet and apply to the boil; it draws out
the matter and relieves soreness.
To keep nickel silver ornaments
and mounts bright rub them with
wooden cloths that have been saturated
in spirits of ammonia.-Detroit Free
Press.
For soft corns dip piece of linen
cloth in turpentine and wrap it around
the toe on which the corn is situated
every night and morning. 1t will prove
an immediate relief to the pain or sore
ness, and the corn will disappear after
few days
The fashion of dressing up mantel-
pieces is now entirely out of date The
mantel shelf should be pretty enough
in itself to require no dressing of this
kind. If it be so ole or discolored that
it needs to be hidden, give it a coat of
paint Y. Tribune.
-Mufins.-One egg, half cup butter
and lard mixed, melted and poured into
one pint sweet milk, three tablespoon
fuls baking powder sifted with enough
flour to make a stiff batter; beat hard
and bake in gem pans. They are ex-
cellent made of graham -four.
Homestead.
Pie With One Crust-To one pint
of apple sauae, strained through col
lender, add the well beaten yolks OF
three eggs, four tablespoonfuls OF
sugar and q teacupful of whipped
cream. Bake in one crust and when
done add meringue made of the white
of the eggs-Boston Globe.
Large squares of white or cream
linen, embroidered with eross-stitch,
are employed to form the centers of
quilts, covers for chest of drawers,
chair backs, etc. They are to be united
and bordered with crochet insertions
and edgings, and are decorated with a
central sprig, or an all-Over design, in
red and blue cotton. N. Y. World.
"A remedy for Roaches-Take three
pounds of oatmeal or meal of Indian
corn, and mix it with pound of white
lead; moisten with treacle so as to form
good paste, and put portion down
at night in the infested building. Re.
peat for few nights alternately, and
in the morning remove the paste and
the corpses to convenient place. Ma
tional Presbyterian.
Corn Starch Cake.-One-half cur
butter, scant, one cup sugar, two eggs
| (yolks), one teaspoonful extract al
mond, one-half cup sweet milk, one
| and one-half cups flour, two tablespoons
corn-starch, one teaspoon baking pow
der, whites of two eggs. Mix in the
order given, mix corn-starch and bak
ing powder with the -four. Bake in q
! shallow pan.-Boston Budget.
Boiled Hama large ham should be
cooked five or six hours; one weighing
twelve pounds four hours, boil it slow
ly in plenty of water, adding a teacup
| full of vinegar, one of brown sugar anC
a dozen cloves. When done take from
the water, remove the skin, put in {
dripper and cover with a board anC
weights. 1t should be cooked twenty
four hours before using in order to slice
nicely if eaten cold-Detroit Free
| Press.
.-Pillau-Wash two pounds of rice
boil it in little water, with half g
pound of butter, some salt, pepper
corn. cloves and mace. Keep the sauce
pan closely covered until the rice is suf
ficiently cooked; then have ready one
and one-half pounds of bacon and TIVE
fowls nicely boiled; place the bacon il
the middle of a dish and the fowls OF
each side; cover over with the boiled
rice and garnish with hard boiled egg
and fried whole onions. Boston Her
| aid.