The Bossier banner., 1892-08-11
FlRESlDE FRAGMENTS.

I'm cooking tough meat or an Ola
fowl add pinch of soda to the water
to make it tender.
Cookies. cups OF sugar ana
one cup of butter beaten together, two
egg vollxs and whites beaten separately,
one-half a cup Of sweet milk, one-haH a
teaspoonful of soda, nutmeg and hour
to roll N. Y. World.
French Pudding.-One quart OF
milk, 10 tablespoonfuls of flour, elght
eggs. Beat the eggs very light, add
them to the milk, with the -four. Butter
a pan, pour in the mixture and bake 1t.
Serve it hot with sweet sauce.-Boston
Budget.
-aruel.-Roll few butter crackers,
and sprinkle slowly into boiling water,
stirring constantly till about the rlght
consistency Add little sweet milk or
cream, salt and a dash of pepper
Good Housekeeping.
GRAVY Toast.-Heat Quart and
cupful of rich milk to boiling, add salt,
and stir into it three scant tablespoon
fuls of flour which has been rubbed to
smooth paste in little cold milk. This
quantity will be sufficient for about
dozen slices of toast. Moisten slices OF
zwieback with hot water, and pack IN
heated dish. When serving, pour
quantity of the cream sauce over each
slice.-Good Health.
WATERS one-half cup but
ter, add slowly one cup powdered sugar
and oue-half cup milk drop by drop
Add one and seven-eighths cups bread
-four and one, half teaspoon of flavor
ing, spread very thin on the bottom of
a dripping=pan inverted and buttered.
Mark in squares, sprinkle with nut
meats (almonds chopped), bake in a
moderate oven about five minutes and
roll when warIn:-House.
! "A fashionable fuel-for what is
there nowadays that has not grades OF
elegance-is the spectrum wood o1
the drawing room hearth. This Is
is fireplace lengths of the timbers OF
old whaling vessels which, seasoned by
many a voyage and saturated with ac
cumulated. drip pings of whale oil, Offer
beautiful blaze as they burn them
selves out on glittering andirons. Al
the supply is to some extent limited,
and as it cannot be manufactured in ;
day, but must accrue with the years, i
is likely to be kept sufficiently rare t.
retain its exclusive, and consequent.
choice and fashio nable, characteristic
N. Y: Times
Chocolate Cake: Boil together un
til they thicken half teacupful of ricl
milk, the yoll of one egg, and one
foruth of a cake of chocolate. Set aside
and when cold add one teacupful G
sugar, or such other quantity as tn
chocolate may require and the taste de
mand, one tablespoonful of butter an
half teacupful of milk. Thicken wit
two teacupfuls of -four, into which ha
previously been sifted two teaspoonful
of baking powder Flavor with va
nilla. Make into four layers and whe
cold put together with boiled icing
Detroit Free Press.
Apple Pudding Peel; quarter an
core enough sour apples to fill dee
bread tin two-thirds full, add half
cupful OF sugar, a lar ge spoonful of bu
ter and one-thi rd of a cupfil Of waite
Make crust of a scant cupful of fou
one teaspoorful of baking powder,
heaping spoonful of butter mike
through the -four, and milk or watC
enough to mix like biscuit. Roll out an
lay over the apples, cut small openir
! in the top to let out the steam. Bal
about one-half hour. Turn out botto
side up on platter; serve hot, cut
slices. Eat with sweet cream or boilt
!, sauce:-Housekeepe