The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-08-04
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

-Rusk Pudding.-Heat dry. stale
bread in the oven until hard, then roll
fine and soak in milk until swollen,
afterwards adding sugar and couple
of well-beaten eggs, pinch of salt and
baking. Chopped sweet apples are an
addition. Eat with milk or cream and
sugar.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Baked Codfish.-Scald the fish,
shred it very fine Boil some potatoes;
while hot put in a large lump of butter;
mash them thoroughly, mix potatoes
and fish together, and beat to cream
with wooden spoon. Put the mixture
into pudding dish, butter the top and
bake until nicely Drowned. Use one
third more potatoes than fish. tBoston
Budget.
Picked Cherries.-Put cherries into
jar and pour over them as much hot
| vinegar and sugar as will cover them.
To each gallon of vinegar allow four
pounds of sugar. 1t should be boiled,
| SKINNED, and while hot poured over
| the fruit. Let stand week: pour OF
the vinegar and boil as before; pour hot
| over the cherries second time. As
soon as cold, seed closely.-House-
] keeper.
| Buried Salmon.-As soon as the
salmon is caught, open it and cut out
the spinal column. Wash it in clean
water and dry on a clean towel. Rub
the fish ON the meat side with table
spoonful of sugar, and on both sides
with some fine salt. Place it with some
dill in a large clean stone jar, and turn
it daily for two or three days, when it
is ready to eat, either as it is or broiled.
Dill always improves the taste OF
salmon. Harper's Bazaar.
-Citron Cakes.-One pound of pow
dered sugar, one pound of sifted flour
mixed with one teaspoonful Of baking
powder, six whole eggs Tor the yolks
from the preceding recipe, with two
eggs mixed with little milk. will dc
as WE'LL, four ounces each of citron and
orange peel cut in small pieces. STU
the eggs and sugar for quarter OF an
hour. add the other ingredients and
bake in small cakes on buttered pans
Perhaps it may be necessary to add
little fioul,-Good Housekeeping.
-Wilted Lettuce.-Place in vegeta
BILE dish, lettuce that has been very
carefully picked and washed, each lea
by itself, to remove all insects Gu
across the dish several times. am
sprinkle with salt. Fry a slice of ia
ham until brown; remove meat; hea
the grease until very hot; add one cul
of good vinegar, and pour it boiling no
over the lettuce. Be certain to hav
| the fat so hot that when the vinegar
, poured in it will boil Immediately. Adj
half cup or cup of vinegar, according
to the strength of vinegar and quantit
| of lettuce. Farm, Field and Firesids
: Celery Soup.-Cook two small head
) of celery from which the green leave
! have been removed) for forty-five mir
: utes in quart of water in which
, chicken or leg of veal has been boiled
, Boil pint of milk, half an onion and
: sprig of parsley together. Mix tw
. even tablespoonfuls of -four with for
, tablespoonfuls of cold milk and add
= boiling milk cook ten minutes Mas
: celery in the water in which it has bee
: cooked and stir into boiling milk; ad
! two tablespoonful of butter, salt an
e pepper to taste. Strain and serve {
1 once. A cupful of cream added jus
a after the soup is put into the turecn
: a great improvement.-Far and Fir
C side.