The Bossier banner., 1892-09-01
fIREslps FRAGMENTS.


Whipped Cream.-Whip pint of
thick cream until firm, sweeten to taste
and flavor with vanilla. Chill and
serve in a glass.-N. Y. World.
To preserve fruit sirups, prepare
the fruit as for jellies. Strain the juice
and put on to boil To each pint Of
juice add half pound of sugar; boil for
fifteen minutes, stirring well, bottle
and seal while boiling.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
-Jellied Chicken.-Boil thoroughly SO
that the bones will drop away from the
meat, then return it to the water and
keep it there over night. Next morning
chop the chicken into very fine pieces,
and to it add salt and butter and a
little pepper if needed. Mix thorough
ly and turn into molds to harden
Detroit Free Press.
Fresh Pineapple.-Select a mellow
one, if you wish to use it the same day.
1t is best to prepare it in the morning.
Peel and dig out the eyes, cut thin slices
into a pretty dish, sprinkle, sugar over
each layer, alternating the fruit and
sugar until all is sliced. Set in a cool
place until ready to serve.-House-
keeper.
DO not let your lsundress or wash
erwoman put clothes into the blueing
water until they have been well shaken,
through the wringer they are almost
certain to be streaked with bluing,
and although after repeated washings
these streaks will come out, every one
knows how aggravating it is to use nap
kins or handkerchiefs that show traces
of careless washing. s-%
Raspberry Jelly.-Mash three pints
of raspberries and add one pint of sugar,
leaving them to stand two hours Soak
one box of gelatine in half pint OF
cold water for two hours, add the grated
rind and juice of two lemons, one pint
of boiling water and the raspberries;
strain through a jelly-bag and pour
into molds, allowing it to stand on ice
over night before using. Red raspber-
ries are much to be preferred, but black
can be used When not in season
canned fruit will answer.-N. Y. World.
Among dainty toilette articles are
hand-chased mirrors, framed in silver,
wrought in special patterns by artistic
workers in metal. The most interest
ing of these mirrors are chased with
figures in French renaissance designs,
or in Italian pattern with cupids,
masques, wreaths and scrolls. These
mirrors are sold at exceptional prices
because they are special pieces of work.
A loir -,
heart-shape may be found for $3.50 and
from this the prices go upward to al
most as many hundred, when q mirror
of special or unique workmanship is
sought for.-N. Y. Tribune.
Cold meats-beef, veal, pork, sau-
sages, ham, tongue, chicken-and fish
are the basis of delicious salads, to
those who like cold meat in piquant
relish, blended with shred lettuce. A
salad of shaved tongue is perhaps the
daintiest. Spinach, in Normandy, is al
| ways called salad" and SO prepared
| when in its own proper character; out
| spinach is also green sweet, and comes
to the table like dark green cream,
favored with vanilla and powdered
with white sugar; of course, thus pre-
pared, it has lost all identity of taste.
"A woman with ideas, who "broke''
long, rather wide, straight hall, with
no staircase in evidence, in an old-fash-
ioned house, with an upright and arch
| of grill work, has added to the effect
with an ivy curtain. A healthy root in
a handsome jar at the foot of the grill
work has grown during two winters
into a beautiful drapery of green. It
has proved a hardy, easily-cared-for
plant, fourishing equally well in win
ter and summer, and seemingly not in
| the least affected by the varying tenn
peratures of a stove-heated house.
Long tendrils are now reaching out
| across the ceiling toward the house
door, and it is only question of time
| when the ambitious vine will be clam
oring for an exit to the open air, leav-
ing a beautifully tapestried upper wall
IN its wake.-N. Y. Times.