The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-08-18
FIRESiDE FRAGMENTS.

French Tosst-Beat one egg thor
oughly and mix it with half pint OF
milk, add half teaspoonful of salt; have
ready hot buttered spider; cut the
bread into thin slices; dip one by one
into the preparation of milk and egg'
fry light brown.-Ohio Farmer.
Graham Rusk, One.-One pint OF
sweet milk, one teacup each OF butter
and sugar, and one cotfee-cup potato
yeast: thicken with fine flour ana let
rise over night; in the morning SUR
down. let rise and stir down again;
| when it rises again make into loaf
with graham -four and let rise again,
| then roll out like soda biscuits, cut ana
put in pans, aud when light bake care
| fullv.-Farm, Field and Preside
| A nice seed cake may be made as
| follows: Two ounces of dried flour,
four ounces Of ground rice, ditto pull
verified sugar. a pinch of salt, and
good teaspoonful of baking powder.
! Beat two ounces of butter to cream,
add two beaten eggs, then, gradually,
the dried ingredients and dessert
| spoonful of carraway seed. Beat well,
and bake about an hour Woman
Home Journal.
| Bread Pancakes.-Take the amount
of sour milk or buttermilk required
for the family meal. Put into this
enough dry bread to take up half the
milk. Soak until soft. Add one or two
eggs. we'll beaten. Salt to taste. The
required amount of soda should be
added: then mix IN -four enough for a
good. stiff batter. Bake in small thin
cakes on hot griddle.-0hio Farmer
Strawberry and Custard Pudding
Put four tablespoonfuls of freshly
made strawberry jam, made by cooking
a pint of berries for twenty minutes
with half pint of sugar, into baking
dish: cover with four ounces OF breed
crumbs and pour over gradually pun
of custard made with pint OF mix
two eggs and two tablespoonfuls o
sugar; pour this on gradually so tina
, the crumbs may absorb it, and bak'
, half an hour in moderately heate'
oven. American Agriculturist.
/ Carpets. carpet being first wei
shaken and free from dust, tack l
down to the floor; then mix half pin
: of buiioclzs gall with two gallons o
a soft water: scrub the carpet well wit
a | SOAP and the gall mixture; when pei
:. fectly dry it will look like new, as tn
. colors will be restored to their origina
= brightness. The brush used must no
/ be too hard, but rather long in tn
hair. or it win rub up the nap and III
!. lure the carpet.-Christian Inquirer.
). Though papers for pantry shelvs
). look very dainty when fresh, ollciot
. in white or light color is much bette
y to use in every place that is to come
n contact with the food. 1t can be wipe
Y as often as dusty or otherwise sole
p without injury. If one chooses, tt
q tissue papers used for china close
q NAV be used on the edges of the shelve
Il The floor of the pantry, unless OF hai
n wood. or even close and well painte
should also be covered with olcloth
linoleum.-N. y. Post.
-Scalloped Potatoes. Butter Il
sides and bottom of an carthen puddiI
y dish. Slice in this a layer of col
:. boiled potatoes, sprinkle some sa
~ pepper and bits of butter over theI
Il Dlst wi. h flour. add another layer
10 the sliced potatoes and SO on until
s. many are used as are needed. Tn
~ over all place layer of fine bre
CT crumbs Pour over this n little me
than teacupful of sweet milk, or crea
es If at hand. Set it in 4 pretty hot ov
Is and bake thirty minutes or to a delica
od brown.-OranGe Judd Farmer.