The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-03-17
FIREsIDE FRAGMENTS.

Boiled Suet Pudding.-One mound
OF Dread crumbs, one pound of sugar.
SIX ounces of suet chopped fine, Juice
and grated rind of two lemons. three
eggs, one cup of milk, one-half pound
OF raisins and same of currants. Boil
three hours in tin pudding boiler
Farm, Field and Fireside.
e-Cranberry and, Apple Preserve
one quart Of berries, one and one-half
quarts OF sweet apple, two-thirds quart
OF cold water, two and one-half cupfuls
OF sugar Put sugar, water and cram
berries on together; boil until the cram
berries begin to crack; add the apple
and boil slowly until it is soft. This is
healthful and an excellent sweet
Good Housekeeping.
-Ground Rice Griddle Cales.-Boil
half a pint of sweet milk, wet two
taoiespoonfuls of ground rice in cold
mix, and stir into the boiling milk and
let 1t boil up. Add small piece of
outter and teaspoonful of sugar and
let 1t cool. Then add two tablespoon
fuls OF flour thinned with cold milk,
Two well beaten eggs and half a tea
spoonful of soda--Boston Budget.
Sweet Potato Pudding.-Boil one
pound OF sweet potatoes very tender;
rub while hot through colander; add
SIX eggs well beaten. three-quarters Of |
pound OF powdered loaf-sugar, three
quarters OF o pound of butter, grated !
nutmeg and lemon peel. Line a pud-
ding dish with rich paste; fill with
the mixture and bake. When the pud-
ding is done, sprinkle the top with
sugar and cover with bits of citron.-
Harper's Bazaar.
Pudding. Take one cupfuI of
chopped suet, one cupful each of
stoned raisins chopped dates, cur
rants and sweet milk, one teaspoon
1ui each of soda aud salt, and three
and one-half cupfuls of -four; use any
spices Steam four hours. If rich
pie is wanted try fig pie. Stew and
sweeten a pound Of figs. 1t will take
two hours at least to cook tender. Line
deep tin with paste, fill with figs,
add dash of -four, more sugar and a
rich top crust. -Housekeeper.
-Cocoanut Cake.-One pound sugar,
one-half pound butter, one and one
half pounds flour, whites of six eggs,
nearly one ounce of baking powder,
'ne ounce fiavoring, milk. Cream but
.er and sugar, sift baking powder with
iour and add alternately with milk,
hen navoring and lastly beaten whites
u eggs. Filling: One pound sugar,
Whites OF three eggs, nearly one-half
'ound OF cocoanut one-haif ounce each
4 lemon and vanilla extracts. Boil ,
ugar until it hairs from spoon, then
id the beaten whites of the eggs, beat
ntil cool, then add favoring and
pread evenly over cake and sprinkle
nth the cocoanut--Orange Judd Far
Ter. .
Snow Pudding. Put a large cupful
not water into pail; moisten two
ven tablespoonfuls of cornstarch n
18th little cold water and stir it
Ito the hot water; then add the -
'hites OF two eggs beaten to a L
IN froth. Set the pail into kettle
boiling water and cook for ten min
tes, stirring often. Flavor. Wet four
lps in cold water; pour the custard
ito them. and set where it will get as 10
I'D as possible. When wanted for the
bile turn out into saucers and pour a !.
'stard made as follows over it: Take e
Ie yolks of the two eggs; two-thirds
cup OF sugar; small lump of but
r; beat thoroughly with two-thirds CO
cup of milk. Set in boiling water "
It'll 1t thickcns- Flavor.-Ohio Far
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