The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-04
FlREslpE FRAGMENTS

FlREsIoE FRAGMENTS
Egg Sauce.-Boil butter, -four.
water, salt and pepper together. re.
move from the stove and add few hard.
ooiied, sliced eggs. Practical Farmer
Lemon Flapjacks-One pint of
MIX four eggs, the juice of one lemon,
pinch OF soda and flour enough to
make light batter. Fry in hot lard and
serve with sugar and nutmeg
Free Press.
ankee Doughnuts Dry half a
pound OF brown sugar in the oven.
mix 1t with two pounds of flour, add
Two spoonfuls Of yeast, and milk 70
make bread, let rise, knead in half a
pound OF brtter, make out in small cakes
the size of half dollar, and fry brown
In BOXING lard.-Home.
Peeled Baked Apples.-Select meds-
nm-sized tart app les. peel and take out
the core, but leave the apple whole, fill
new tin with the apples, then fill the
cavi les with sugar, place in a quick
oven and bake, remove from the tin as
soon as done; serve Ii individual dishes
IN. Y. Observer.
told Tongue.-Soals picked beefs
tongue over night in cold water; boil
e'i tenoer in water to cover, adding a
SINAI. red pepper. When peeled, place
10 saucepan with one cup OF water,
haif cup of vinegar and four table.
spoonfuls of sugar; set in the oven and
cook till the liquor is evaporated, serve
cold.-Ohio Farmer.
-Piquant Sauce Chop very fine one
medium sized picked onion, two small
Xherkins and teaspoonful of eapers,
cover with two tablespoonfuls Of vim
egar and place over the Are In a little
granite saucepan; when the vinegar has
nearly simmered away, add a gill of
gravy or stock, and season with pepper
and salt; acd also bayleaf and sprie
OF thyme, and simmer Ave minutes
ionScr-Country Gentleman.
Chicken Consomme.-Take a four.
pound chicken and q small kuuckle of
veal Cut up the meat and the bones
Put two tablespoons of butter in a SCUM
kettle and set over the fire to brown;
put In the meat and stir for Ave min.
ntes Cover the kettle and let simmer
for half an hour Pour In half a gallon
OF cold water and let simmer slowly for
two hours Add one sliced carrot. one
stalk of celery, one sliced onion, spriQ
OF parsley and a bay leaf: simmer one
hour longer. Strain and set aside until
cold. Skim off the fat and reheat.-
Harper's Bazaar.
"A very convenient mucilage can be
made of onion juice by any one who
wishes to use it. A gcod-sized Spanish
onion, after being boiled a short time.
will yield, on being pressed, quite
large quantity of very adhesive fluid.
This Is used quite extensively in various
trades for FASTING paper onto tin OF
zinc, or even glass aud the tenacity
with which 1t holds would surprise any
one on making the flrst attempt It'll
tho cheapest and best mucilage for such
purposes and answers just a. we'll "a
many OF the moro costly and patent
cementa Boston Budget
--Okra Gum bo Fifty okras steamed
and cut in small bits; three white or two
red onions chopped fine; ten large solid
tomatoes peeled and cut up, half
sweet pepper chopped, half a cup of
mashed rice. slice of good ham. one
tablespoonful of butter, one of salt, a
pinch OF cayenne; fry the onions in the
butter, but only light brown; then
put all the ingre dents together with
one cup OF broth in hot water, the for
mer preferred, and cover close, stewing
very slowly for from four to six hours.
BE careful that it does not scorch, as il
will If not watch ed and stirred often.
1t is better the second day, as are all
dishes conta ming good many ingredi-
ents In relocating it is better to put il
in granite or enamelled saucepan as
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