The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-18
FIREslos FRAGMENTS.

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Flannel Cakes Two eggs beaten
light, one pint of ,hilk, Salt to taste,
two teasp6onfuls of yeast-powder and
Tour enough for batter. Serve hot in
round cakes With maple syrup. Old
Homestead.
-Hominy Croquettes. Soften a cup.
fui OF cold. boiled hominy, fine-grained.
with cupful of sweet milk and well.
beaten egg Mix thoroughly and add
teaspoonful Of white sugar, with
pepper, salt and butter Form into
croquettes, dip in beaten egg and
cracker crumbs, and fry in hot lard. ~
! Housekeeper.
"A nice way to cook yd'ins chickens.
Dress and Joint them as usual; place in
dripping-pan and just cover with
sweet cream; season with salt, pepper,
and little butter; now set in the oven
to cook, and by the time the cream is
almost cooked away the chicken will
be Done They are just splendid done
Ia this way.-Old Homestead
Yeast Corn Cake.=Pdur three cups
OF boiling milk over two cups OF corn
meal; beat thoroughly, and add tea
spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of
sugar. two of butter. Mix we'll. Let
this cool and add two tablespoonfuls of
liquid yeast and one well-teaten egg.
Let this rise five hours before pouring
into well-Greased baking pm; pouring
about one and half or two inches
thick. Raise half hour before bak-
ing.-Base forty minutes
Free Press.
In cleaning a badly soiled carpet
great precaution should be used. Brus-
se.s tapestries, Wiltons or velvet car.
pets may be cleansed with OK gall, one
pint to pail of water Use an ordi.
nary scrubbing brush, and afterward
the carpet should be vigorously rubbed
with coarse cloth; fresh water should
be applied. A small portion of the car.
pet done each day during hot and sui.
try weather would keep it greatly re-
freshed in colorings, as well as sweet
and clean.-N. Y. Recorder.
Saratoga Biscuit. Heat a pint Of
new milk over the fire, and when hot
enough to melt butter, remove. add |
butter the size of walnut. three beaten
eggs, three tablespoonfuls of good Yeast.
a little salt, and -four enough TO make |
soft dough. Let them rise in warm
place for two or three hours. Make uu
into small biscuit or bun, shaped cakes,
lay close together on a wcll-buttered
tin, and bake for fifteen minutes in
quick oven.-Farm, Field and Fireside.
Fried Chicken With Oysters.
and cut young chicken at the joints
INTO pieces for serving. Dredge with
salt, pepper and -four, and fry them
brown in butter or chicken fat. Make
cream sauce, with one heapinp table.
spoon of flour mixed with one table.
'poon OF hot butter, add gradually one
up OF hot cream or milk: season with
ALT, pepper and lemon juice. Cook
me pint OF oysters in one tablespoon OF
'utter till plump Pour them over the
hlclsen, and pour the sauce over the
Budget.
Peach Pudding Drain the liquor
rom quart of canned peaches into a
uart cup. and fill the cup with new
milk. Stir into this the beaten yolk;
I I'VE eggs, and one cup of sugar; boil
he mixture and stir in three table.
poonfuls of corn starch dissolved In q
title cold milk; when it boils well pour
lto an earthen pudding dish and bake :
All an hour. Place thick layer OF j
AIMED peaches over the top, cover with
mcringue of the whites of two eggs
eaten to q froth with two tablespoon.
;ls OF white sugar; return to the oven 9
nj brown. -Farm and Fireside.