The Bossier banner., 1892-08-04
FlREsIDE FRAGMENTS.

FIhESIOE Fh00mE EtN De
Chocolate Icing.-Put into sauce
pan half pound of powdered loaf
sugar, two ounces of grated chocolate
and about one gill of water. Stir on the
fire until the mixture assumes the con-
sistency of smooth, thick cream. De
troit Detroit Press.
Baked Tomatoes.-Cut the toma-
toes in halves; pour juice and pulp over
some crumbled bread; pepper and salt.
Fill up the tomatoes with the mixture;
put in baking-dish; sprinkle with
crumbs of bread, little salt and pepper,
some bits of butter, and bake.-Boston
Budget.
Lemon Jelly with Banarla.-Make
some lemon jelly, using three lemons, a
cupful of sugar to half box of gela-
tine. Let it get little stiff. Peel and
slice quite thin some fine solid fine ba-
nanas. Pour a layer of jelly in a mould,
then put in layer of bananas, then an
other of jelly, and 50 on, until the
mould is full. Let it stiffen, and serve
in bed of stiffiy whipped cream
Household Monthly.
Lobster Soup.-The liquor from a
can of lobster, a pint of milk and pint
of stock. Heat to boiling in different
vessels the milk and stock. Heat the
lobster liquor, but do not boil. Pour
the stock into the tureen, whisk in the
milk, and the lobster liquor, salt, a
speck of cayenne and grating of nut
meg. Whisk thoroughly and serve
Ladies' Home Journal.
-Deviled Biscuit.-Make two table.
spoonfuls of butter very soft, and stir
into it one teaspoonful of mixed mus
tard and about one-tenth of teaspoon
full of cayenne. Spread this on six thin
water crackers or eight Saltenas, put
ting a thin coating on both sides of the
cracker. Place in the toaSter and hold
over the fire until brown on both sides.
Serve hot with che eSe.-Good House
keeping.
The suggestion is offered by a clever
needle-woman that a better stocking
darner than the wooden or porcelain
egg or polished solid cup is a discarded
slipper sole, or rather the sole of dis
carded slipper. for the two should re-
main united This inserted in the stock
ing Offers a smooth and more available
surface for stretching the hole over
than any other.--N. Y. Times.
-Roasting Coffee.-Many people grind
their coffee but do not roast it, and if 1t
is bought in large quantities the de-
lightful aroma that always attends
freshly roasted coffee is in time lost. If
the cook will place in the oven each
morning, for a few minutes before
grinding, the quantity she is to use, the
same result may be obtained as if it
were freshly roasted.-Food.
For burns take equal parts of lin
seed oil and lime water mixed and
poured over the burn. A cotton or lin
nen cloth wrung out Of the mixture and
laid upon the wound. If this prepara-
ton is faithfully used it will be found
to remove pain and give a great deal
of comfort. Pure glycerine is a most
excellent remedy also. When first ap-
piled it causes smarting, but this soon
ceases and the actual pain from the
burn is much relieved. Glycerine is
said to favor rapid healing. The sooner
it Is applied after the accident the
quicker good results will be obtained.
Fried Chicken. - To prepare the
chicken, dress and wash thoroughly;
cut up the usual way, put into boiling
water to cover it and boil until tender,
then remove from the vessel, allowing
the gravy to remain. Drain the chicken
and roll in flour, season with salt and
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lump of butter, into which you place
the chicken, frying it to a nice brown
and turning it often. Have fat dish
in the oven which will be warm to re-
ceive the chicken when DONE To make
the gravy use the liquid the fowl was
boiled in, put it into the frying pan and
thicken with teaspoonful of flour and
season with pepper and salt; pour lit
tie over the chicken and garnish with
celery leaves.-N. Y. World.