The Bossier banner., 1891-04-02
ElREslpE FRAGMENTS.

Barley Water: Thoroughly wash
two ounces of pearl barley, put it on the
fire in two quarts of cold water, and
boil it down to one quart, then strain
and sweeten it to taste, and when cool 1t
is ready to use.-Boston Budget.
Nice Mincemeat: Mix four and one
half pounds of apples, chopped very
fine, with two pounds of boiled beef,
also chopped fine, and three-quarters OF
pound of suet; season to taste with
powdered cinnamon, powdered cloves
and grated nutmeg; stir in two and one
half pounds of brown sugar, a little
salt, three pounds of raisins seeded.
thrce-fourths of pound of citron cut
up fine and add sufficient vinegar to
make quite moist.
Rabbit Pudding. small rabbit
cut into nice small pieces, few slices
of bacon, pepper and salt; line dish
with ordinary paste and lay in the
pieces of rabbit with the pieces of bacon
intermixed; add salt, pepper and very
little sage; pour in half a cupful of
water. Cover all with crust and boil
two hours, tied in a cloth.-Serve with
out gravy with currant jelly.-Boston
Herald.
Hard Soap: Dissolve one can of pot
ash in quart of cold water; then stir
slowly into it six pounds of melted
grease; the cleaner the grease the
whittier the soap. Stir few minutes un-
til it is very thick; pour into a square
pan. If you want to cut it in pieces,
you must do it as soon as cold, or it will
harden so that it can not be cut easily.
Mixing oatmeal in this soap makes a
good toilet article; it is very good for the
hands
-Crackeroni; That is all the name
can think of for it. Put on a pan of hot
water on the stove. Place therein few
stale crackers. When they have swelled
to twice their size lift from the hot
water with a skinner into bright new
pan. When you have laid one layer in
the bottom of pan. add little bits of but
ter; cheese, pepper and salt. Add layers
of crackers, then layers of the season
ing until the pan is nearly full, finishing
with a coating of finely cut cheese.
Pour over this little water and bake
L
Some one who writes for the Chris
tian Advocate about baby stufing gives
this explanation of the old ladys saying
that pulking baby is healthy baby
1t is because such babies have the
power to reject that which is fed to
them over and above what the stomach
can well dispose of. The tendency is to
feed infants much too often and stop
every cry with a mouthful of some
thing. The experiment has been tried
of bringing up babies on the three meals
a day plan, with success, but the inter-
walls between meals of even the young
est infant should never be less than
three hours, and if they are thirsty in
the meantime, pure water will serve
better than milk, which is food.
"A sick-room screen should be made
very light, so it can be moved easily. A
clothes-horse will answer for the frame.
Buy a couple of tubes of darkest green,
thin with linseed oil and little turpen-
tine, and with fat bristle-brush paint
the light wood frame. Dark green
silesia, tackled on one side firmly to the
wooden frame, will shut out light. On
the other side you can pin up one pict-
ure at time. If there is color in that
one picture, so much the better. The
nearer you make your sick-room screen
like the screen an artist uses in his
studio, the better for the recovery of
the sick child. The use of this screen is
to rest and protect the eyes. The use of
the picture is to amuse the sick child.
"A useful hanging newspaper pocket
can be made of large sheet of birch
bark, lined with soft red silk or satin,
and bound with ribbon of the sans
shade. The lower end is bent forward
and tied by ribbons at the corners to
the sides about half way up, thus form
ing large hollow tube, into which
papers can be easily slipped A bold
spray of flowers, branch of fruit, or
flight of birds painted in the right-hand
top corner is an improvement, with the
word ''P pers' or the monogram of the
owner below it. Should the birch bark
not prove sufficiently stiff for the pur.
pose, sheet of pasteboard can be in
serted between it and the lining.-N. Y.
Observer.