The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-15
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.
Roast Salt Pork.-First boil

pork then remove to the roasting pan.
When you have scored the rind both
ways, place in the oven and bake rich
brown.-Ladies' World
Jelly Float.-Beat the whites of SIX
eggs. add six tablespoonfuls of sugar,
beat until very firm, add a cup of tart
jelly and set on ice. Serve in saucers
with sweetened whipped crean.-Home.
-Mildew-Soak the widowed parts
for several hours in a solution com
posed of two parts of chloride of lime
to four parts water. Rinse several
times in cold water-Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Graham Bread-An excellent gra-
ham bread can be made by following
the above recipe, only substituting half
graham flour, and thus using two quarts
Of wheat flour and two of graham. The
graham bread is much more nutritious
than the white, and is very healthy
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Rice WaHies.-Look over and wash
two cups of rice, cook in cold water IN
double kettle until soft When done
and partly cool add two eggs we'll
beaten, one spoonful of butter, half
pint of milk and a pinch of salt, mix
well and beat several minutes, bake IN
waffle irons.-N. Y. Observer.
French Toast.-One egg, we'll
| beaten, and added to one pint sweet
milk. Cut the crusts from thick slices
| of bread, dip them into the milk, and
| then into fine bread or cracker crumbs.
Heat fresh lard or butter in d fraying-
pan, and fry the slices of bread nice
brown Serve hot, with or without
powdered sugar.
! Potato Cakes. - To thoroughly
mashed potatoes, add salt, butter, a
little pepper. and sufficient milk to
moisten slightly. Before perfectly
cold add beaten egg, mixing we'll.
Shape into fiat. round cakes and put
away to cool. When ready to fry, roll
in flour and fry in hot butter. Turn
carefully with broad blade and brown
the other side. Serve hot at once.
Rice Pudding.-Take two and one
half tablespoonfuls of rice, quart and
cupful of milk, cupful of sugar, a
teaspoonful of vanilla or other extract.
Put the milk and the rice in sauce
|
and let simmer about two hourS-until
creamy-but do not let boil Add the
sugar and the fiavoring, put in dish,
bake in the oven till brown.-Harper S
Bazaar.
Rye Muffins.-Mix one cup of rye
meal mot flour) with one cup Of white
flour, one-quarter cup of sugar and one
teaspoonful of salt. Beat one egg light
without separating. add to it one cup
of milk, and slowly pour this on the
dry material, beating all the while
Add one teaspoonful of baking pow
der, put in creased muffin tins, anC
bake twenty minutes in a quick oven
Boston Budget.
Cup Custards-Mix one and one
half pints Of new milk, one cupful O.
white sugar, one teaspoonful of eX
tract; lemon, orange or vanilla. FIJI
the custard cups two-thirds full ant
place them in steamer over a kettle
of boiling water, or in a baking PAL
containing hot water, in the oven
When the custard is set it is done. l
one likes, the tops of the custards ma,
be covered with the whites of two egg
beaten to froth, sweetened and fla
vored. -Housekeeper
Coventry Fruit Cake.-One-hal
pound of butter and one pound G
sugar creamed together. Add on
pound of eggs, one pound of CAREFUL
prepared currants, one pouad of stone
raisins, one quarter of a pound of eli
ron and lemon peel, a little cinnamon
allspice and cloves, and few swee
and bitter almonds blanched an
pounded. Mix with one pound of fou
and two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, and bake in a moderate oven.-
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