The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-04-15
FiRESlDE FRAGMENTS.

--IIickorynut Drops. two cup
fuls OF sugar, enc egg, two tablespoon
fuls of flour, cupful of hickorynut
kernels sliced fine: mix and drop ON
buttered tins.-Ohio Farmer.
Bacon and Apples-After frying
some rashers of bacon in frying-pan,
fry in the fat some slices of cored apples.
Serve the bacon in the center of dish
with the apple slices around it-Drake's
Magazine
1t is a good plan to keep a crock of
ing spots of greas, from carpets, boards.
marble, etc. If applied Immediately
and well rubbed in it will absorb the
grease, and may then be brushed of
dry without njuring the color or fabric
Splendid Boston Brown Bread
Scald pint of corn meal with pint
of boiling water; when sufficiently cool
gill Of yeast, gill of molasscs tea
spoonful of salt Mix well. and, when
perfectly risen. steam five hours, then
put into the oven for half an hour to
dry and harden the crust-IIcalth and
Humanity.
French Chicken Pie-Cut tender
chicken in joints, cut half pound of
salt pork in pie res; in a little water
boil the two together until nearly ten
der. Line n deep dish with pie paste;
put in the meat, season with salt, pep
per and chopped parsley. Put in a lit
tic water and cover over with the pie
paste, which SHOULD be rich. Bake forty
minutes. Detroit Free Press.
Apple Mcringue. Remove the cores
aud set the apples in pan. filling the
holes with sugar. Pour little water
in the pan and put in tie oven to bake.
Remove the apples before they are
cracked open from being too we'll done,
and pour over them meringue which
has been slightly favored with lemon
extract. This is sail to bring out the deli
cate taste Of the applc.-Farmers' Voice.
Some variations of church fair
schemes were seen in a recent enter
tainment of the sort In lieu of the
time-honored grab bag, al old village
pump, moss-grown and dark with age,
apparently, flowed favors instead of
waters through it's ancient spout. One
of the stalls represented the huge web,
with giant spider enthroned therein;
caught in its meshes were all sorts of
tempting fancy work and notions, while
from above iloatei banner cnticingly
inviting the passing flies to Come into
my parlor. N Y. Times.
Baked Apples with Whipped Cream.
Pare and core the apples, or leave the
skin on, as preferred. Lay them in
baking dish. fill each apple with sugar;
stick Glove into it and sprinkle
tablespoonful OF sugar over each. Cover
and bake half an hour, then remove the
cover and continue the baking ,unt I'LL the
apples are tender but not broken, and
nicely Drowned. Then take them up in
a glass dish and when cold serve, with
whipped cream, or use ordinary cream
if the whipped cream Is not readily
available. Orange judd Farmer. !.
Brine for Butter.-Make brine
strong enough to bear an egg. To one
gallon of it put half pound of sugar
and two tablespoonfuls of saltpstre.
Boil we'll AMI skim perfectly clear. Then
strain some five or six times. and keep
small bag of salt in the firsin of brine.
If butter made by some good dairyman
in September, when it may be bought
cheap, is made up into one or two
pound rolls, tied up in cotton cloths,
and submerged in this brine, it will
keep fresh and sweet whole year. 1t
must, of course. be kept welt under by
means of weights, or boarl top that
just fits inside the caslS and is helS down
by n large stone or other wcight-Har