Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-09-19
HOUSEHOLD sREvM,Es.

"A dado is not advisable in Q low
small room, nor is a wide frieze. Tho
ceiling paper should be in a very small
figure, as should the wall paper.
To destroy rats and mice. take pow
der of scilla maritime, half IN ounce,
and mix it with strong smelling cheese.
Roll up into little balls and place in the
haunts Very efficacious.- Free
Press.
-Buns.-Take two eggs, one cup o.
sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup
of milk, one teaspoon of cream tartar,
half a teaspoon of soda and a teaspoon
of extract of lemon. Bake in cup tins.
Farm and Home.
The soap-saver is useful little
utensil. 1t is box of wire net with q
long handle attached. The soap Is
placed in it, and If shaken in q pan Of
Gishwater, will produce a strong suds
without the slightest waste.
Spun candy may be made after a
fashion with fork. When the sugar
has reached the proper degree. if a
four-tined fork be dipped in and drawn
slowly out it will spin a thread, which
may be wrapped around framework
of whatever you may choose.
Shrimp Frittcrs.-One plate pre-
pared shrimps chopped into a batter
made of three eggs, half-cup of milk,
tiny pinch of salt, teaspoonful of melt
ed butter, bread-crumbs to make.k stiff
batter. Fry in boiling lard andeberve
very hot.-Ladies' Home Journ4
For beef tea cut two pounds OF lean
beef very fine with sharp knife. Pour
pint of cold water over it, and let it
stand for several hours in double
it will heat to the boiling point but not
boil. When the juice is oil extracted
from the meat, SO that the meat is
white, drain off the liquid and salt to
taste.-N. Y. World.
>Scallops of Halibut With Cucum-
bers-Cut a pound of fresh ha1ibut in
small pieces, put it over the fire in a
hot frying-pan containing two table
spoonfuls of butter, season it with salt
and pepper and fry it quickly until it
begins to brown. Meanwhile peel and
slice dish of fresh. cucumber dress
them with salt pepper and vinegar,
with salad oil if it is desired. Serve
the halibut scallops and cucum bers
with a dish of boiled new potatoes
Springfield Republican.
-Gooseberry Pie.-Pick off the ste ms
and blossoms of your gooseberries,
wash them and pour enough boiling
water over them to cover them. Let
them stand few minutes and then
drain them. Line your pie-plates with
paste, fill them with the fruit, and add
three-quarters of u pound of sugar to a
pint of fruit. Dredge little flour over
the top and cover with lid of paste,
leave an opening in the center to per.
nit the steam to escape, and bake
them.-Boston Budget.
French Pudding.-P and core
eight apples. Steam until tender. Boil
one cupful of sugar, half u cupful Of
water, the juice of one orange and OF
lemon together for six or eight minutes.
Put the steamed apples in the bottom
OF deep pudding-dish, pour over the
| boiling sirup and set it on ice to cool.
Boil little more than a pint of milk,
beat in the yolks of three eggs with
half cupful of sugar; take from the
fire and add ten finely powdered maca.
Rooms, with a ateaspoonful of extract OF
vanilla. Fill the holes in the apples
with peach preserves, pour the custard
over and set in a moderate oven twenty
minutes. Beat the whites of three eggs
with powdered sugar, to make stiff,
heap over the top of the pudding, and
brown. Set on ice to cool and serve
very cold.-HouSekeeper.