The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To Destroy Crickets or Beetles
Put some strong stuff in the cracks
and holes from whence they come.
They have a strong dislike of bora,
and will net come near it.
Mullins 0ne pint Of milk, two
beaten eggs, two tablespoonful each
of melted butter and sugar, two tea
/ spoorfuls of cream of tartar. one of
soda, and flour enough to make a bat
ter that will drop from the spoon
Leeds Mercury.
-Bakcd Ehubarb Gut the stalks in.
to inch pieces. Butter a deep dish, put
in q large layer Of rhubarb and then
sprinkle heavily with sugar. Continue
until the dish is filled. Bake until
soft III moderate oven and serve with
crean.-Prairie Farmer.
Frozen MISREPRESENTATION together
one pint of sugar and one quart OF
water half an hour, add two quarts OF
fresh raspberries. and cook fifteen min
utes longer, and then remove from
the fire. When cool add the juice OF
three lemons and freeze.-Boston Bud.
get.
Plotted Herrings.-Cut the heads
off the herring and lay in an earthen
pot: sprinkle q little salt between each
layer; add cloves, mace, pepper, and
sliced nutmeg; fill up the vessel with
vinegar, water, and white wine; cover
it and place in the oven. When cold
take out the behring's and put them in.
to w~ell-covered vessels. -Harper's Ba.
zaS.
-Scalloped potatces.-Cut cold.
boiled potatoes very thin and small,
and place a quart of them in layers in
Il baking-dish, season each layer with
salt, pepper, and little bits of butter.
Cover with a gill of cream or very rich
milk, CRATE bread crumbs over the po-
t~atoes, season again with salt and pep
per, and small bits of butter, and bake
until thoroughly heated and brown
Farmers Review.
-Sweetbread Salad. As soon as the
sweetbreads are brought home, plunge
them into scalding water, slightly
sailed, and allow them to remain there
for ten minutes. then lay in iced water
to whiten them. When entirely cold,
cook them for fifteen minutes in salted
boiling water, wipe them dry and lay
them on ice until they are cold and
crisp, when they may be cut with a
sharp knife into slices. Line your
salad bowl with lettuce leaves, lay the
sliced sweetbreads upon these and Gov.
CT thiclly with mayonnaise dressing,
Home Queen.
queen Cakes.-Six ounces of but.
ter, six ounce of sugar, six ounce OF
tiorHr, four ounces of currants, one tea
spoonful of baking powder, grated
rind of a lemon, two eggs, and if nee
essary a little milk. Put the butter
into a basin and beat to n cream, add
to it the sugar and beat we'll together,
mix rind and flour together, add it and
the eggs well beaten to the butter and
sugsr, beat the mixture we'll and add
the powder and curraptfe Half ELL
well-greased patty pans with the MKT
ure and bake in a moderate oven TWEEN
ty minutes .-Leed's Mercury.
Raspberry Granite.-This is a ia.
vorite desert with all who have tried
it, and deserves a prominent place in
the list Of frozen dainties. Boil one
quart Of water with n pint of sugar
for fifteen minutes: add the juice OF
three lemons and two quarts of red
raspberries. Cool and pour into the
freezer. Pack with equal quantities
of ice and salt. At the end of an hour
take a wooden spoon and scrape the
granite from the side of the can, but
do not beat it.1 Pack again for an.
other hour. and just before serving
stir in a pint and a half of fresh Der.
ries. -Boston Budget.