The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-26
FIRESIpe FRAGMENTS.

Potato Pons Take five larre yam
potatoes, CRATE, add two eggs, we'll
beaten, two cups of brown sugar, one
and half cups of Louisiana mola
half a teaspoon of soda, add mace and
ginger to taste. Bake in hot oven;
serve hot or sliced and eaten cold
Housekeeper
If / have heavy comforters to
wash, / first lay them on the log bridge
across the river and take the broom and
sweep them lengthwise OF the logs.
Carpets, old pants, horse blankets,
could be washed in the same manner.
1t saves strength ana time, also the
batting in tue quilt-AIrs. Stilwell.
Corn Mullins. One cup of corn
meal, one-half cup of flour, a table
spoonful of sugar, one-fourth teaspoon
fnl of salt, one and one-half teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. enc egg, one
and one-half cupfuls of sweet milk
Bake in wcll-heated gem pans or short
handled spider or frying pan.-Farm,
Field and Stockman.
-Escallope Tomatoes.--Placea layer
of cold stewed tomatoes in the bottom
of an earthen pudding dish, then d
layer of fine bread or cracker crumbs,
with salt, pepper and butter. Repeat
until dish is full If liked a scanty
quantity of finely chopped onion may
be mixed with the tomatoes Have a
layer of crumbs on top. Bake a light
brown.-Orange Judd Farmer.
-Broiled Oysters. your oysters,
which must first be wiped dry AMI sea-
soncd with salt and pepper, on close
gridiron over bright coals--lay small
bit of butter on each oyster-as soon
as they are hot through turn over and
as soon as each oyster swells remove
and have ready some slices of toast,
pile the oysters on the toast aud pour
over all soma melted butter and serve
very hot. Louis Republican.
Whipped Apples. the pulp OF
roasted apples, and for each pint take
half-pint of pulverized sugar and the
whites of three eggs. Beat the whites
of egg to a stiff froth, then add spoon
full of the apple aud spoonful OF sugar
alternately, beating all together till
the mixture stands perfectly stiff on
the spoon. OF the yollxs of the eggs,
make boiled custard with pint of
milk and two tablespoonfuls OF sugar,
favored with vanilla. Put this custard
in saucers and cover with the apple
sauce.-Good Housekeeping.
Facts About Glycerine. -Glycerine,
says a writer in Home Notes, is one
of the most useful and misun ierstood
of everyday drugs. 1t must not be ap-
piled to the skin unliluted, or it will
cause it to become red and hard, but il
rubbed well into the skin while wet ii
has softening and whitening effect,
1t viii preventand cure chapped hands,
and soothe an irritable cough By mois-
tening the siryness of the throlt. APP
piled to shoes, glyeerine is n great pre-
sentative of the leather, and eifcctually
keeps out tbs water and prevents wet
feet.-Leeds Mercury.
flashed Cream Potatoes - Select
Early Rose or Peachblov potatoes, boil
them with the skins on and stand them
in the refrigerator. Then peel and put
them in chopoing bowl and chop them
very fine. Melt some butter in stew
pan and put in the potatoes; then pour
over enough rich cream to cover them
and sprinkle over with salt. Stand
them on the range, where they will
cook slowly; do not stir them They
have a rich, waxy appearance wher
done. Put them in an uncovered vege
table dish and serve very hot.-Farrr
and Home.