Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Powdered borax scattered freely wherever waterbugs put in their un. welcome appearance, and blown into ereviees and all hiding places, will send these pests to your neighbors, for time at least, and is the best remedy known.
 Date Bread: To q pint of white. bread sponge well raised, add half eupful of warm water, one tablespoon fuI of lard one-quarter cupful of molasses, and one eupful of stoned dates. Stir in enough rye flour to make 2 soft dough. Stir well, or Anead lightly, put in the pan, and when light bake for an hour.-Good Housekeeping.
 Soft Soap: For four pounds of fat. use one pound of concentrated lye and four gallons of soft water. Put into 8 large kettle and boil until all the fat has dissolved and the whole mass looks transparent. Add twelve gallons more of soft water and boil few minutes, when the soap will be done When cold it will be a firm jelly.-Country Gentleman.
 Egg Gems: Mix equal quantities of cold bread crumbs chopped very fine. Season with pepper, salt and melted butter. Add enough milk to moisten the crumbs, and one or two beaten eggs to bind the ingredients together. Butter small cake or gem tins, fill them half full with the mix ture, break an egg and lay it on each one, and bake six or eight minutes Serve ot.-Housekeeper.
 Boiled Rabbit: Cut up one rabbit, wash and let stand five or six hours in salt water. Rinse twice in cold water. put in saucepan, add one teaspoonful of pepper, one of celery seed, one table spoonful of powdered sage, three large onions. Cover with cold water and boil till tender. Remove the rabbit and place it on hot platter. Strain the liquor, setting it aside. Put large tablespoonful of butter in a skillet and brown; add one teaspoonful of curry powder, cover and boil three minutes Pour over rabbit and serve hot.--Farn, Field and Preside
 Duchess Soup: Fry two sliced onions and two heaping tablespoonfuls of butter together for eight minutes, then add two tabIespoonfuIs of flour and fry two minutes longer, being careful not to scorch. Stir into this one quart of boiling milk and cook ten minutes. Pour through strainer and return to the fire. If liked two table spoonfuls of grated cheese may now be added. Beat three eggs together with salt and pepper to season the soup Four into the soup, set back for two or three mi ..1l nf lni1 Then serve.-Orange Judd Farmer.
 Baked Shad-Roe: Wash roe and, putting it into stewpan with one tea spoonful of salt and qnart of boiling water, cook for ten minutes. Take the roe from the boiling water and, putting it in a bowl of cold water, cut It in slices about an inch thick When cold, wipe dry and season with half teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Put heaping tablespoonful of butter In frying pan and on the fire. When so hot that it begins to turn brown, add level tablespoonful of flour and stlr Now draw the pan back to a cooler part of the stove and gradually add half pint of white stock-veal or chicken. Season this with little salt, grain of cayenne pepper and a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Put the roe in. small escalop dish and pour the sauce over it. Sprinkle cupful of grated bread-crumbs over the top and strew these with bits of butter. Bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes and serve in the dish in which It IS baked.-N. r. Ledger.