The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-18
HOUSEHOLD sREWTIEs.

TO improve starch, add one tea
spoonful of EPSON salts and dissolve in
the usual way by boiling. Articles
starched with this will be sitter, and
rendered to certain extent fire-proof
Chocolate Cookies Two teacupfuls
sugar, one teacupful butter, four eggs,
three teacupfnls -four. one teacupful
grated chocolate, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls baking powder. Mix to-
gether lightly and roll thin. Lay In a
buttered pan; bake in q quick oven
Prairie Farmer.
Fried Egg Plant Make weak So
luton OF salt and water, pare the egg
plant and cut in thin slices, let them
soak in the solution an hour and half;
then take the m out and wipe the slices
dry; dip in beaten egg and roll in
grated dry bread or cracker crumbs.
Fry in hot butter until soft and nice
brown and serve. Detroit Free Press.
Ginger Pound Cake Six eggs, one
hall. pound of butter, one pound OF
-four, one small pint of molasses, one
half pound brown sugar, one teacup OF
ground ginger, one glass of wine OF
brandy. a teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in little vinegar and water Cream,
butter and sugar together, then add
eggs beaten separately and other in
gradients, soda last-N. Y. Tribune.
Orange Pudding Peel and slice
six oranges and lay them in a pudding
dish, sprinkle with sugar and pour over
them boiled custard, when cool,
which is made of one pint of milk, the
yolks of three eggs, three tablespoons
of sugar and one tablespoon of corn
starch. Make meringue for the top,
of the three whites and two spoons Of
sugar. Place in the oven and lightly
brown. Boston Budget.
-Deviled Potatoes. the potatoes
lengthwise in long. thin strips, and fry.
OF course plain slices, rounds or dice
may be used, as one chooses. Cool
quickly; have ready meanwhile in q
saucepan good lump of butter, rubbed
up with sufficient quantity of French
mustard, and if liked a little catsup OF
hot sauce of some favorite sort The
dish requires high seasoning. Drop
the potatoes into this sauce and shake
up until they are well coated. Serve
with the sauce in deep dish. Country
Gentleman.
-One-Crust Apple Pie.-Line your
pie-plates with good pastry, then pare
and quarter some fine, tart, juicy APP
Piles. fill the pie-plates with them,
sprinkle over them some powdered
white sugar. half cupful to each pie.
and bake until the apples are tender;
take them out of the oven; beat the
whites of two eggs to stiff froth, and
sweeten them with one tablespoonful
of powdered white sugar, and flavor
with little grated nutmeg, spread
this over tbs pie; place it again in the
oven and brown lightly. Serve either
warm or cold.-Ohio Farmer.
Chicken Croquettes. The meat Of .
grown pullet, five oysters, and sweet
bread chopped fine; large tablespoon
full of butter melted in saucepan over
slow fire; a tablespoonful of -four
stirred to cream in the hot butter.
Add gill of cream, and stir 1t five min
utes. After thus stirring the meat and
cream together, put in two well beaten
eggs, and stir two minutes longer.
Season to the taste with pepper, salt
and a little celery seed, or any minced
herb that you fancy. Roll the prepare
ton into pieces the shape of an egg,
then roll in cracker crumbs, after dip
ping in egg, and fry in hot lard. Gar
nish the dish either with curled lettuce
leaves or parsley. Bazaar.