The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-10-01
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.


If the soles of pegged boots or shoes
are occasionally oiled the shoes will be
easier, the soles will last longer and the
pegs will not get loose in the leather.
The addition of lemon juice to the
water In which rice is boiled will in
crease the whiteness, and the grains
will readily separate when thus treated.
Fried Sweet Potatoes-Bake for
half an hour, then pare and cut in slices,
and season with pepper and salt Heat
in pan some pork, ham, or chicken fat.
Cover the pan with sliced potato; brown
on one side, then turn and brown on the
other. Serve hot.-Good Housekeeping.
strawberry Acid.-Dissolve four
ounces of tartaric acid in two quarts of
water and pour II over two gallons of
ripe Strawberries; let stand twenty
four hours and drain the liquor off; to
every pint of juice add one and one-half
pounds of loaf sugar; boil, let stand
three days and bottle. A few spoons
full in glass of ice water makes de-
hghtful drink.-Boston Budget
"A recent writer gives a good sug-
gestion concerning the washing of
glass or china with gold decorations
Such should never be put into strong
soap suds Or water with washing COM
pounds. They should be washed with
sponge in clear water and dried on
soft linen cloths or with tissue paper.
In this way the gold will never wear
off.-N. Y. Times.
Cup Custards.-Beat thoroughly
three eggs; add three tablespoonfuls of
sugar and three teacupfuls of milk.
Use any fiavoring you may prefer.
Pour into cups, place the cups in pan
OF hot water and bake in a well-heated
oven. Serve cold in the cups. Three
eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar and
three teacups of milk is very good
proportion for all custards, and is easily
being a tablespoonful of
sugar and a cup of milk for each egg
Ohio Farmer.
Sandwich es for Picnics.-Boil four
eggs hard and mash the yolks until
smooth. Then rub in carefully table.
spoonful of olive oil, or If butter be pre-
ferred it can be used melted. Add a
pinch of salt, little cayenne pepper,
and mustard spoonful of mixed mus
tard. Rub them all together until per.
fectly smooth. Then spread the mix
ture on thin slices of buttered bread
and turn them together. If fond of the
white of egg, cut the whites into very
thin rings and put one layer in each |
Magazine
Beef Olives.-Have about one pound |
thin steak cut in four or five pieces,
brush them over with egg, and sprinkle |
with tablespoonful of minced savoury |
herbs, little pepper and salt, and roll |
up the pieces tightly, fastening them |
with small skewer. Put them with |
one pint of stock into a stewpan that |
will exactly hold them, that they may
keep their shape better. Stew them |
gently for an hour and a half, take |
them out, remove the skewers, thicken
the gravy with butter and flour, and |
add little catsup to flavor it, pour over
the meat and rve.-Housekeeper.
Active children are very apt to tum-
BILE about in summer, when they have
free privilege to roam out of doors, and |
they sometimes sustain severe bruises.
While they are too trivial to require a
physician, it will save pain and black
and blue spots to keep soothing lotion
IN the house, which will reduce the
local Inflammation. The most effective
md simplest remedy is one part arnica
TO five parts water. When a serious
Druise has been sustained, of course,
lear arnica may be applied. but this is
not necessary for ordinary cases. II
should be remembered, however, that
lrnica is poisonous, and for that reason
should be labeled and kept safely locked
'ut of reach of people who make mis-
axes and of meddlesome children