The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-05-29
F,REs,og FRAGMENTS.


1T is said that the onion is great.
sleep inducer, and about equal to Qut-
nine for malaria -
In making steamed custards, con-
slant stirring is necessary after putting
in the thickening ingredients, to get
smooth, creamy result
-Prune Pie: Three cups prunes, one
cup sugar, one teaspoonful extract
lemon, two tablespoonfuls vinegar.
Stew. seed and mash prunes; add sugar,
lemon, and vinegar. Have mixture
rather juicy and bake with two crusts.
-Housekeeper.
you wish your floor mattings to
look as fresh and bright at the close OF
the summer as when they were laid in
the spring, see that they are carefully
wiped of after eaen sweeping with
soft cloth, wrung out OF salt and water.
Corn Souffle: One pint each Of
grated corn and sweet milk, two eggs
beaten very light small teaspoonful.
salt and one and one-half tablespoonfuls.
sugar. Mix we'll and bake in buttered
pudding dish forty minutes. Eat as soon
as done.-Orsnge Judd Farmer.
Creole Pudding: Beat eight eggs
with half pound of sugar, half pound
of butter and the juice of one lemon
Line deep dish with puff paste, cover
with ounce preserves, pour over little
of the mixture, lay on more preserves,
then more of the mixture and preserves.
Bake and eat with sauce.-Boston Bud
get
Cream Pie: Four tablespoonful Of
rich cream, one tablespoonful OF flour,
one cupful of sugar, one cupful of cold
water, yelks Of two eggs, flavor with
lemon, line pie plate with pastry, pour
in the mixture and bake at once, make
a meringue of the whites of the eggs,
spread smoothly on the top and brown
delicately.-Boston Herald.
There is no artistic reason why you
should not have a wood-engraving hung
| In an unpretentious frame in your par
lor, II it is good wood-engraving. II
you have two crayon pictures, OF two
pictures in black-and-white Of any kind,
a wood-engraving is easily bought at
small expense, which is really master
piece In its line. This you can make
the top of your pyramid Of the black
and-white group Be sure to select 9
wood-engraving which will show across
the room what 1t means.-Demorest'f
Monthly.
Marble discolored by smoke can be
cleaned by benzine literally applied
and rubbed of with clean flannel. L
not then quite clean, apply second
time. Soap takes the polish from mar
BILE. Polish with linen cloths. To tak'
iron stains from marble, use an equa
quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol ant
lemon Juice shaken together in bottle
Wet the spots, and in few minutes rul
with soft linen, and the spots will dis
appear, :.
"A stoned olive stuffed with well
favored chicken force-meat is deliciou
tid-bit at a picnic, or for any cold lunch
con. Select the large queen olives TO
this purpose, cut with penknife
slanting lengthwise cut in each olive
and continue to hold the knife next t
the stone and thus remove it 1t vii
come out easily. Stone number, I'll
the opening with chicken force-meat
: and ii you wish to keep them perfectl
In shape tie each one up and remove tn
string after a few hours and just befor
serving,
Pot Roast Ducklings: utinto sha
: low crook o thin strip Of bacon and
tablespoonful of mixed spices whole
clean or truss two ducklings and ad
hot water or sonp stock enough to cove
3 up half way on the birds. Add parsle
and a few celery seed. Place mario
strip of bacon over each bird Put Q
the lid and set the crock in moderat
oven, where the birds will cook slowl
two hours Remove the ducks, strai
I the sauce, reduce it one-third by boiling
8 add gill Of cider or claret, thicken wit
Drowned -four, simmer fifteen minute
e adding then tablespoonful OF lemC
: iuice and serve with the ducks.