The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-19
FIREsIDE FRAoMENTs.


Beef ! Ia Potato. ABroil thin slices
Of beet. Slice raw potato in thin par
ings, dip in batter of flour and milk,
and fry in deep lard. Serve around the
meat.-Good Housekeeping.
TO Stew, Mushrooms = Sprinkle
them with little salt, and put them
in a stewpan with black and red pep
per until quite tender, then add small
lump of butter and two tablespoonfuls
of cream.-1N, T.. Observer.
"A Fruit Salad Dessert.-One pine
apple grated, two large oranges, cut
finely, one cocoanut, grated. Mfx
we'll and sweeten to taste. Let stand
an hour or two before serving. Then
add two bananas, sliced thinly, and
serve.-House Keeper.
Strawberries with Whipped Cream.
Stem ripe, fresh strawberries, place q
layer In the bottom of . large glass
dish; sprinkle with sugar; put another
layer of berries and sugar. Whip .
pint of thick cream with the whites Of
two eggs and teacup of sugar: put
over the strawberries and set on ice fof
half an hour.-Harper's Bazaar.
Cake Filling.-An economical I'LL
ing for cake may be made with apples;
cook them until they become soft, thor
beat the yolk of one egg and add It
with one cupful of sugar to the apple;
add also the juice and grated rind OF
one lemon. Cook these ingredients
about five minutes and spread between
the layers of cake while warm.-Prairie
Farmer.
Fine Pudding Sauce.-A large cup
full of the best fresh butter; the same
Of powdered loaf sugar. Put them to-
gether into pan, and beat them to q
light, thick cream. Then mix wine
glassful of boiling water; the same Of
best brandy, with the juice of lemon
or orange, and q half of nutmeg
grated. Mix these ingredients, grad
ually. with the beaten butter and
sugar, and transfer to ssuee-boat.-
Home Queen.
The housewives in Florida havd
found q new use for oranges. They
scrub the floors with them. Go into
almost any town in the orange-growing
districts and you will see the women
using the luscious fruit exactly as our
housekeepers use soap. They cut the
oranges in halves and rub the fiat ex'
posed pulp on the floor. The acid in
the oranges doubtless does the clean.
sing, but at anysrate the boards are as
white as snow after the application.
It is thought that lemons would be
better than oranges for this purpose
because of tho additional acidity.
Hot Sweetbread Croquettes- Chop
fine q cold, cooked sweetbread and mix
with it half its volume of chopped
tongue and again of cold, cooked mush-
rooms, add sauce, season, add bread
crumbs to consistency to form Gro
quettes Divide It into parts the size
Of little egg, roll in good table bread
crumbs on the board or a napkin and
with the hand form into croquettes the
size Of . pear. Roll again in bread
crumbs, fry light brown in boiling
lard or oil, and put in each stem end q
bouquet of parsley to initiate the stem
end Of the fruit--Boston Globe.
-Chops.-There is no more delicate
dish than one of lamb-rib chops, nicely
broiled, and served hot for breakfast.
Loin chops are liked as well by some.
Mutton chops are. best cooked as fol.
lows: Trim of most Of the fat, put
some drippings and butter in q frying
: pan, set it over the fire, and when hot
!. lay iii the chops, which have been
rubbed with salt and pepper. Watch
them carefully, and as soon as brown
on one side, turn them. When nicely
Drowned on both sides, pour half q
teacupful of boiling water into the
pan, cover it closely, set it ON the back
of the stove and let it simmer for half
an hour. In this way the chops ara
tender, brown and juicy. These arc
nice served with tomato sauce.-Farm
Field and Fireside.