The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-06-25
HOUSEHOLD eREviTles.

"A teaspoonful of alum will make
clear four gallons of muddy water.
Boiling the water is necessary to re-
move dascase germs when farm pump
or a town reservoir has bad name.
"A Tonic for the Hair.-A good tonic
for the hair is salt water, a teaspoonful
of salt to half-pint of water, applied
to the hair two or three times week.
The effect at the end of month will be
surprising Ladies' Home Journal.
Chloride of lime is an infallible pre-
ventive for rats, as they flee, from its
odor as from pestiience. 1t should be
thrown down their holes, and spread
about wherever they are likely to come,
and should be renewed once fortnight.
Tomato Soup.-Stew one can of to-
matoes with pint of water until soft.
Add teaspoonful of soda and allow it
to effervesce, then add a quart of boil
ing milk, some rolled crackers, salt and
pepper to taste, and a generous lump OF
butter. Let it boil for a few minutes
and serve.-Housekeeper
-Savory Potatoes.-To one pound OF
mashed potatoes add a quarter OF
teaspoonful of salt, one gill of sweet
milk, half an ounce of grated cheese.
and mix well. Place the potatoes
smoothly in small, well creased pie
dish, sprinkle over them one ounce of
finely grated cheese and a tablespoon
full of butter in small pieces. Bake in
a brisk oven until it is a golden brown
and serve very hot.-Home.
Chocolate fros.ing.-Take the white
of two eggs, one teaspoonful of light
brown sugar, a quarter cake of choco-
late and half teacupful cold water.
Boil the water and sugar until it
threads when raised up with spoon.
Pour this on the eggs after beating
them to a froth and stir rapidly.
Flavor with vanilla, then add the grated
chocolate and stir until nearly cold,
when spread it on the cake. If for
layer cake put it on the layers and top,
or on the top and sides of plain loaf
Orange Judd Farmer.
Prince of Wales Cake.-Black part
One cup of brown sugar, one half cup
of butter, one half cup of sour milk,
two cups of flour, one cup of chopped
raisins, one teaspoonful of soda dis
solved in little warm water, one
tablespoonful of molasses, the yolks of
three, eggs, one teaspoonful each OF
cloves and nutmeg. White part-0ne
| cup of -four, one half cup each of corn
starch, sweet milk, and butter, one cup
of graduated sugar, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder, the whites of three
eggs. Bake all in four layers, and put
together with icing.-Springfeld
Mass Republican.
Apples in Red Jelly.-Choose large
apples, peel them and take out the cores:
put into each apple two cloves and fill
them up with powdered sugar. Place
them in a pie dish, add more sugar, the
| juice of one lemon, and two teacupfuls
of water. Bake for about half an hour;
lift the apples carefully SO as not to
break them, place in a dish to cool.
Strain the liquor in which they have
been stewing into lined saucepan, add
| to it the rind of a lemon, and one table
spoonful of gelatine that has been dis
solved in cold water, and if not sweet a
little more sugar, and six cloves. Boil
till quite clear, cool with little eochi.
neal, and strain the jelly through a
double muslin into a bowl. Let it cool
a little and pour it over the apples
which have been previously arranged
in deep glass dish. When quite COO
put on the top of the apples the. white
of an egg that has been beaten to stiff
observation-disclosures.