The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

-Spaghetti.-Put tablespoonful Of
hard and butter into porcelain sauce
pan. When hot add one-quarter of .
pound of spaghetti, broken in desired
.ength, half an onion, sliced, one large
tomato, sliced, pepper and salt and q
dash of red pepper. Stir 70 prevent
burning, and allow to brown slightly.
Then add one large cup of stock or hot
water and boil until the water has
been absorbed, being sure that the
spaghetti is tender.-N. Y. Ledger.
Caramel Custard.-Have six Gus
tard cups all ready for the sugar,
melt one-half c,'p granulated sugar
in an iron pan and pour into the
bottom of the cups, beat three eggs
without separating, add four table,
spoons sugar, one teaspoon vanilla and
one and a half cups milk Pour into
custard cups. stand them in q pan of
boiling water and cook in moderate
oven fifteen minutes, turn from the
cups while hot but serve cold.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
Cup Cakes.-Four eggs, one pint Of
milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
three cups of flour, half cup of but
ter, beat the sugar and butter togeth.
er, then add the yolks of the eggs, and
beat again. Add the milk, sift the
baking-powder into the -four. and stir
it slowly. into the batter. Then add
the whites, beaten to stiff froth. If
too thin, add more four Flavor with
lemon extract Set cups CREASED with
butter into a dripping-pan, and fill
over half full. Bake about twenty
minutes.-Home Queen.
-Ragout of Duck.-Simmer the
bones and fragments of cold roast
duck half an hour in pint or more Of
stock; then strain. Put tablespoon
ful of butter into a stew-pan; when
melted thicken with a little cornstarch
and add the liquor in which the bones
were boiled. Boil three minutes and
strain again. Add the juice of half q
lemon and season with salt, and quite
highly with cayenne pepper. Lay in
slices of cold duck and allow them to
heat through. Do not boil or the meat
will be hard.-Country Gentleman.
Cod Steaks Have some nice
steaks, about an inch thick, cut from
the tail of a cod, stand them for an
hour in seasoned oil, prepared in the
following way: Take a gill of oil,
add to it the juice of large lemon
and half a saltspoopful of cayenne and
salt Brush the steaks over with this,
then wrap in buttered paper, and grill
over a clear fire; serve with a small
piece of butter on each. which has been
favored with a few drops of anchovy
sauce; garnish with slices of lemon
and fried parsley, and serve.-Leed's
Mercury.
Observation-Disclosures buildings of
all kinds are an attractive change from
the one sent to the table in a single
dish. Bread and rice buildings and
custards may be baked in cups. placed
while in the oven in a pan of hot wa
ter. Orange and pineapple shortcakes
are seasonable daintics. Bake each
shortcake in the shape of a large
bakingpowder biscuit, split and fill
with the sweetened fruit Just before
sending to the table. Shortcalse made
of either of these fruits is very nice
when the cake is made thin and cut in
squares with the fruit heaped on it
and about it just before serving. In
this case have large glass dish full of
the pulp of the fruit on the side table
ready to serve with the crust of the
cake.--Farmer's Review.