The Colfax chronicle., 1892-01-16
ElREslpE FRAGMENTS


"A very good way to use up cold
roasts, especially those of pork or veal,
is to put a sufficient number of slices
into vinegar over night, then dip in egg
and bread crumbs and fry light brown.
-Housekeeper.
To remove a wart. cover the skin
around the wart with lard, apply over
the surface of the growth one or two
drops of strong hydrochloric or nitric
acid; then keep the part covered up
until the scab separates.
-Shad: Make dressing of bread
crumbs, butter and parsley, sprinkled
with salt and pepper. Fill the fish and
sew up; spread thickly with butter, and
-four we'll Pour little hot water
round the fish and baste often. Bake
an hour and serve garnished with pars-
ley.-Boston Budget
Perhaps you would like to try to
make your own cologne; here is a recipe
which is said to be very good: To one
half gallon of alcohol put six drachms
each of oil of lavender, oil of bergamot,
and essence of lemon, two drachms of
oil of rosemary, and twelve drops oil OF
cinnamon.-N. Y. Tribune.
Lemons are simple and excellent
remedy for biliousness. Take the juice
of one or two lemons in as much water
as will make it pleasant to drink without
sugar, before going to bed In the
morning on rising, at least half an hour
before breakfast, take the juice of one
lemon in a tumbler of cold water.
Apple Compete: Cut some fine ap-
pies in halves, peel them, clean out the
cores, and drop them into cold water.
Having taken them out, prepare some
sirup by taking two pounds of fine sugar
and boiling until the sirup spins into a
thread. Boil your apples in this sirup
until they are soft Place them In
china or glass dishes, and after strain
ing the sirup through fine sieve, pour
into the holes of the apples whence the
cores have been cut out-Ladies' Home
Journal
Here is remedy for women who
are tagged out after day of excite
ment or business, and is better than al
coholic stimulants and quinine: Drop q
fresh, raw egg into glass of lemonade.
shake well together-be careful with
the sugar-and drink it slowly and
without ice when you begin to dress 1t
Is astonishing how the dreary numbness
will leave your tired head. and bright
things will soon come trooping into
your mind to say over the coffee. Once
q Week
Cottage Soup: Two ounces of drip
ping, half a pound of any solid fresh
meat, in dice one inch square. quarter
of a pound of onions. quarter of a
pound of turnips, two pounds of leeks,
three ounces of celery, half pound of
rice, three ounces of salt, quarter of
an ounce of brown sugar, six quarts of
water. Put the meat sugar, dripping
and onions into an iron saucepan; stew
them till lightly Drowned; add turnibs,
celery. leeks. Stir cold water and rice.
Add five quarts of hot water, and salt
to taste. Stir occasionally till it boils.
If to be kept; stir gently till the soup is
nearly cold. Let it simmer three hours
boston Herald
Fruit Cake: Wash and drain we'll
one pound of currants, chop (not fine)
one pound of raisins; slice one-half
pound Of citron- Beat Ave eggs and
two cups of brown sugar together. add
one cupful of butter, one cupful of mo-
lasses, one cupful OF good sour milk
with one large teaspoonful of soda dis
solved in the milk, one teaspoonful
each of ground cinnamon, cloves and
nutmeg and six cupsful of sifted flour,
reserving half cupful to mix with the
fruit to prevent it settling. add the fruit
last This will make one large loaf
and will require one and half or two
hours to bake it-Home.