Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-02
PRESIDE FRAGMENTS.
To cure a wart scrape a carrot fin nn.l n,,,,l,r nr n ,,o,nltinA for siY nirhks

and apply as a poultice for six nights.
 To clean articles of paper-mache, wash them with a little 1ukewarm water and soap and rub them vigor- ously with sweet oiL-N. Y. Tribune.
 Mock Cream Toast-Put one quart of milk over the fire, with a tablespoon full of butter in it. Rub two table spoonfuls of flour smooth in cold water, and stir into the milk and let it boil till it thickens. Season with a scant teaspoonful of salt, and pour over toasted crustless slices of bread.-Har- per's Bazar.
 Milk Toast.-Scald pint of milk, melt an ounce of butter and add to 1t an ounce of flour and little salt; whisk in the milk gradually and simmer until thick. Prepare four or five slices of toast; put them in hot deep dish; pour the milk between and over the slices and serve.-Boston Budget.
 -Cocoanut Custard.-To pint and a half of boiling milk add a small cupful of dessicated cocoanut Boil ten min utes, and when cool add three well beaten eggs and three tablespoonfuls of sugar Pour into an earthen dish, set in a shallow tin of hot water, and bake until it sets. Country Gentleman.
 Edmund Russell, of Delsartean ten dencies, loves red, but warns people against too free use of it. 'I know a house," he says, with red room that gives the whole family the color of raw beef. They are rather highly complex toned people-high flyers, probably and the strong red of the walls brings out the strong reds of their cheeks so that they look like butchers "-N. Y. Times.
 To Prepare SOuse. - Clean and scrape pigs feet and ears, throw into brine for three days, pour off and make new brine for them. At the end of three days take out and cook in fresh water; when cold put in a jar and sprin- l1le with little salt. Prepare enough vinegar to cover them, add whole cloves and stick cinnamon, heat boiling hot and pour over the souse. In two days | they will be ready for use. Cover close ly.-N. Y. Observer.
 | Tea Cakes.-Put upon a pie board one pound of flour which you have pre- viously sifted, make hole in the cen ter, in which place one-half pound o1 butter, six ounces of powdered sugar and four eggs. Mix all well together l and roll out your paste extremely thin cut it out in rounds or squares, put in a | pan which has been buttered slightly brush your cakes with beaten egg | sprinkle on top with one-half pound o: entrants; put in the oven, and wher colored a bright yellow remove then and serve as needed. Budget
 A Scotch prose is time-honoret dish It calls for three cups of th' liquor in which leg of mutton or { | piece of beef has been boiled, or thu same amount of stock, cup of oat meal, and an even teaspoonful of sal in case the stock has not been salted
 Let the oatmeal cook steadily in al earthen pipkin in the broth for on
 hour, and serve. Oatmeal, when served in this way for breakfast, may be cooked the night before, and steamed in tn
 morning. Almost any grain, such a
 rice, hominy or barley, is excellen
 cooked in stock in this manner espe
 cially when it is served with a dish o
 meat, and not as breakfast porridg
 with mill1-N. Y. Observer.