Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-22
PRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

A wonderfully good imitation ot maple sugar may be made by fiavoring ordinary brown sugar with an extract of hickory bark. It is said to be al- most indistinguishable from the genu- inc.
 Coffee Jelly.-Soak box of gela. tine in half a pint of cold water for two hours Pour over 1t at the end of that time one and half pints of boil ing water. When it is dissolved add one pint of sugar and pint of strong coffee. Strain, turn into molds and set away to harden.-Boston Budget
 Spring Pudding. three cups of flour with two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder, add a cup of sugar, a table spoonful of butter, two eggs, aud Q cup of milk, flavor with tea-spoonful of Dr. Prices extract of vanilla Butter mold, pour in the batter and steam one hour. Eat with hard dsauce.-Home.
 Egg Salad. three large stalks of celery into pieces, and put in a salad bowl. Chop the whites of five hard boiled eggs and add to the celery, with little salt and pepper; slice the yolks of the eggs in thin rounds, lay carefully, over the salad, pour over a plain salad dressing and garnish with celery leaves -Harper's Bazar.
 An excellent remedy for chest cold, used promptly, issa poultice of hot onions. The onions should be sliced and stewed in lard till somewhat tender and very hot. Then put them in a bag already prepared, take { 70 or three stitches in the end and apply where the distress is most evident This done while waiting for physician will often avert a serious attack.
 Coventry Fruit Calxe.-One-half pound of butter and one pound of sugar, creamed together; add one pound of eggs, one pound of carefully prepared entrants, one pound of stoned raisins, quarter of a pound of citron and lemon peel, little cinnamon. allspice and cloves and few sweet and bitter all monds, b!anched and pounded; mix with one pound of four and two tea spoonfuls of baking powder. and bake in moderate oven.-Boston Budget. Rice With Figs Boil one cupful of rice in two cupfuls of water for half an hour; add half a teaspoonful of salt; pour into a colauder. if the water is not all cooked out, to let it drain; set it in the oven until the rice is white and dry: then set it in a steamer. Chop half a pound of figs fine. and stir into the rice; cover and steam twenty minutes; serve hot with a bowl of cream to which has been added four tablespoonfuls of sugar.-N. Y. Observer.
 Boiled Apple Dumplings Prepare your paste; cut into squares and fill as for baked dumplings. chopping finely the apples, that they may cook more { readily; put each dumping into a bag or cloth and tie, leaving room for it to swell; drop the bags into boiling water and boil steadily for an hour; serve the dumplings hot with saucesa good sauce is made by mixing brown sugar and
 butter together and ground cinnamon. Chocolate Blanc Mange large tablespoonfuls grated chocolate into a quart of cold milk, and let it boil five minutes Have ready six table spoonfuls cornstarch prepared in a lit- tie cold milk; stir in the milk and choco- late; make very sweet and let it boil ten minutes; put it in a mold and eat when cold with cream. It should be made soon after breakfast and stand on the ice until dinner. Farm, Field and Fireside.