The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-03
FIRESIDE 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 jellics. 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
-JeIlied 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 1t add salt and butter and a
little pepper if needed. Mix thorough
ly and turn into molds to harden
Detroit Free Press
Fresh Pineapple-Selecta mellow
one if you wish to use II the same day.
1t is best to prepare it in the morning.
Peel and dig out the eyes, cut thin slices
into pretty dish, sprinkle sugar over
each layer, alternating the fruit and
sugar until all is sliced Set in cool
place until ready to serve. House
keeper.
DO not let your laundress or wash
erwoman put clothes into the blueing
water until they have been well shaken,
if tossed in while folded, as they come
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.
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 a pint Of
cold water for two hours, add the grated
find 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 raspoer-
5 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
s figures in French renaissance designs,
r or in italian pattern with cupids,
masaues. wreaths and scrolls. These
mirrors are sold at exceptional prices
$ because they are special pieces OF Work
e A very dainty hand-uiirror framed 10
!. heart-shape may be found for $50, and
h from this the prices go upward to al
n most as many hundred, when mirror
ut special Or unique workmanship
~ sought for-N. Y. Tribune.
Cold meats-beef, veal, pork, sau
~ sages, ham,. tongue, chicken-and nst
"a are the basis of delicious salads, u
q those who like cold meat in piquan
- relish, blended with shred lettuce.
salad of shaved tongue is perhaps tn
=, daintiest. Spinach, in Normandy, Is al
- WAYS called salad" and 50 prepares
> when in its own proper character; bu
"A spinach Is also green sweet, and come
"A TO the table like a dark green cream
!. favored with vanilla and powders
: with white sugar; Of course; thus pre-
barred, it has lost all identity OF taste:
"A woman with ideas, who "broke
to long, rather wide, straight hall, wit
no staircase in evidence, in an old-fasf
t, toned house, with an upright and arc
ot of grill work. has added to the eftet
I'd with an ivy curtain. A healthy root
re handsome jar at the foot of the gri
ia work has grown during two winter
he into beautiful drapery OF green.
IS. has proved hardy, easily.cared-fe
e, plant, fourishing equally well in wiz
nd ter and summer, and seemingly not
he the least affected by the varying ten
Is peratures Of stove-heated hous
Il, Long tendrils are now reaching on
~ across the ceiling toward the hou'
les door, and II Is only a question OF tin
Ip, when the ambitious vine will be clar
ut urine for an exit to the open air, lea
is ing a beautifully tapcstried upper wa
ais IA its wake,-N, Y. Times.