The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-07-11
FIREsIDE FRAGMENTS.

-Mildew may be removed Dy ruDDAng
common yellow soap on it, then salt anc
starch over that; rub all in well and lay
in the bright sunshine.
"A good remedy for damp, moist
hands is four ounces of cologne water
and one-half ounce of tincture of bella
donna. Rub the hands with this sew
eral times day.
When your face and ears burn so
terribly, battle them in very hot water
as hot as you can bear. This will be
more apt to cool them than any cold APP
plicatiou.
-Steaming the face at night over
bowl of very hot water, and then bath
ing it with very cold water, is simple
method of giving It Russian bath, and
will tend to make the skin whittier and
smoother and the flesh firmer.
For lemon sauce easily made take
one cupful of sugar and one-haf cupful
of butter, beat till creamed; squeeze
the juice of one lemon into one~haif
pint of water, stir together and let it
boil up once or twice.
For chocolate pie, beat together the
yolks of two eggs, six tablespoonfuls OF
sugar, three tablespoonfuls corn starch
and four tablespoonfulso of grated choco-
late. Mix the ingredients and stir in a
q pint of boiling water. Bake the I'M
dercrust, then add the custard, and,
when baked, put the beaten whites on
top.-N. Y. World.
Dreamed Oysters pint OF milk:
when boiling, add two tablespoonfuls OF
cornstarch, salt and pepper, and one
tablespoonful of butter. Take fine pow
dered crumbs, and scatter over the bot
tom of q well-buttered dish. Put a
layer of oysters, then layer of cream,
next crumbs, then oysters, cream, and
80 on, having crumbs on top. Brown,
or rather cook as for escalloped oysters.
| 1t is a change from the latter dish. =
Boston Budget
-Colored tennis fannels should be
washed in water about the temperature
| of the room they are washed in, with
good white soap of any kind, and rinscd
thoroughly in water of the same tenn
perature, and wrung out as dry as posi-
BILE. They may be hung up for short
time in the house, but should be taken
down while still damp and ironed dry.
Some laundresses never hang them up,
but wiring them SO dry that the iron
completes the drying.
Eggs with fine Herbs: Boil five on
six eggs about five minutes, then plunge
them into cold water, and afterwards
take off the shells, cut the eggs in two
and pour over them while hot the fol
lowing sauce: Mix smooth two table
spoonfuls of butter and one of flour, put
it over the fire in saucepan with lit
tie finely chopped onion and parsley
salt and pepper; heat it and moister
with enough white wine vinegar u
make of the proper consistency
Orange Judd Farmer.
Orange Custard: Peel and slice fou
oranges in an earthen dish you wish Il
serve it in. Sift fine sugar over eacl
LAYER as you slice them Make Gus
tard, using two whole eggs and tn
volks of two more, well beaten, on
quart of milk and two-thirds of cup
full of sugar. Flavor with vanilla
steam until done, then pour over the OF
anQe. Beat the whites of two eggs an
sweeten with fine sugar, pour over tn
custard when cool and set in oven fiv
minutes. A little vanilla or orang
juice in the frosting improves it--Houss
! keeper.
i Puff paste may be made with butte
for shortening, or by using one-ha
butter and half lard; an extra teaspoon
full of salt will be required II lard
used. Stir the heated yolk of an eg
into half cupful of ice water and wit
this moisten the -four, into which ont
half pound of butter has been choppe'
making stiff dough. Use for Il
whole one pound of shortening to OF
pound Of -four. Roll out the past
haste with one-th.rd of the remainir
, butter. fold closely and roll out agal
repeat the process till the butter is fst
up. Roll very thin and set in co
, place for ten minutes before usin
Brush over with beaten egg while he
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