The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-02
EIREslpE FRAGMENTS.

To color soup green use spinage.
Pound it, press ont the Juice and add II
to the soup Just before serving.
-Buttermilk can be used with baking
powder instead of sweet milk by stlr-
ring in little soda. If the buttermilk
is new, one can't tell the difference.
"A strip of flannel or napkin folded
lengthwise and dipped in hot water ana
wrung out, and then applied around the
neck of a child that has the Group, Will
usually bring relief in ten minutes.
Roast Oysters: Wash the shells ana
dry; put them on bed of hot Goals
When they are done, they will open
little. Remove the upper shell ana
serve the oysters in lower one. Season
with salt and put little melted butter
on h.-Housekeeper.
Lemon Custard Pie: The juice ana
grated rind of two lemons, one-half tea
cupful of butter, four spoonfuis OF
cream, six eggs, three cupfuls OF sugar
and one alf pint of milk. Beat the
lemons, yelks and butter together, then
add the sugar, whites and cream. Inc
quantity makes three pies.
cups of sugar, one cup Of sour milk. two
eggs, two scant tablespoons OF melted
butter, half nutmeg, one spoonful OF
| cinnamon, one teaspoon OF salt, one
teaspoon of soda; make it a little stlffer
than biscuit dough; roll out quarter OF
inch thick and cut with a fried cake cut
ter with hole in the center; fry in hot
lard.
| Prince Albert Sandwiches: Take
three eggs, piece of butter the size OF
walnut, little grated cheese, a dash
of salt and of cayenne pepper. Put all
into sauce pan and stir over the hre
until it thickens. Cut some round pieces
of bread, fry them in butter till of nice
brown. Spread the paste over them.
Have some ham or tongue grated, to be
strewn over them before serving.
Salt Baths at Home.-People who
are fond of sea-bathing in summer
should know that in winter most
effective and yet simple substitute for
sea water is a cup of rock salt dissolved
in warm water and added to the bath.
A warm salt bath of this kind is the
most refreshing tonic for an exhausted
body. But don't go out of doors after
taking it. Just before going to bed is
the right time.
In making pastry if a white OF egg
be dissolved in each tumbler of colo
water used as wetting, it will make the
crust more more flaky and tender
Pastry should be handled as little al
possible, and it should not be turned
over in rolling it out. The water uset
in wetting it ought to be very cold
and slate or marble slab is preferable
to wooden board for rolling it on
Christian at Work.
Many make a mistake in stirrin.
!, oatmeal too much while cooking; it !
, apt to make it mushy and pasty; SOM
may prefer it cooked SO, but / think
| is much better and more palatabl
cooked in this manner: Allow one-hal
| | pint of coarse oatmeal, and two evel
teaspoonfuls of salt to each quart o
water. Put the meal and salt into
farina kettle Tor tinpail, set in kettl
; of boiling water), pour on the water, he
or cold, it makes no difference which
3 when it thickens give it one good stil
4 ring, and cook three hours. No need
E watch, stir or add water except in tn
: under kettle.-Ladies' Home Journal.
' Packing vegetables.-Peat moss
5 recommended for packing beets, par
l nips carrots, satisfy, turnips, winte
g radishes, etc. A bale costing two do
!, lars would be ample to pack all til
a vegetables for home consumption durin
v the winter. 1t should be loosened an
o spread out, thoroughly wet and Above
V to stand twenty-four hours, and ii
+ vegetables packed in alternate laye
of it. 1t is very clean and retain
moisture without fermenting, and pr
serves roots so perfectly that no OF
m who has once tried it will ever be wit
out it. 1t may be used for a number