The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-01
FlREsIDE FRAGMENTS.

"A very good way. to use up cold
roasts, especially those of pork or veal,
is to put n sufficient number of slices
INTO vinegar over night, then dip in egg
and bread crumbs and fry u light brown.
-HOusekeeper.
10 remove 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, sprinl1led
with salt and pepper. Fill the fish and
sew up; spread thiclkly with butter, and
flour well. Pour little hot water
round the fish and haste often. Bake
an hour and serve garnished with pars-
lcy.-Boston Budget.
Perhaps you would like to try to
make your own cologne; here is 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 arc n simple and excellent
remedy for biliousness. Take the juice
Of one or two lemons in as much water
as will mako it plesantto 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 tumblcr of cold water
Apple Compete: Cut some fine APP
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 Il remedy for women who
arc tagged out after day of excite
mcnt or business, and is better than al
coholic stimulants and quininc: Drop
fresh. raw egg into glass of lemonade,
shake well togcthcr-be careful with
the sugar-and drink it slowly and
without ice when you begin to dress. 1t
is astonishing how the dreary numbncss
will leave your tired head, and bright
things will soon come troopng into
your mind to say over the coffee. Once
n Week.
Cottage Soup: Two ounces of drip
ping, half pound of any solid fresh
meat, in dice one inch square, a quarter
of Il pound OF onions, quarter of a
pound of turnips, two pounds of lccl1s.
three ounces of celery. half pound of
rice, three ounces of salt, a 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 turnips,
celery, lcclSs. Stir cold water and rice.
Add five quarts of hot water, and salt
to taste. Stir occasionally till it boils.
IL to be kept. stir gently till the soup is
nearly cold. Let it simmer three hours.
Boston Herald
Fruit Cake: Wash and drain well
one pound of currants chop mot fine)
one pound of raisins; slice onc-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,
rcserving 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 n half or two
hours to bake it. Home.