American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Corn STARCH CAKE.-Onc cup of but
ter, two cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup
of sweet milk, one of corn starch, two
cups of -four one teaspoon soda and two
of cream of-tartar. Flavor with nutmeg
and lemon.
To KEEP FURs.-One ounce gum cam
phor, and one powdered shell of red pep
per- Macerate in eight ounces of alcohol
for several days, then strain. Sprinkle
ftlrs, etc, with this tincture, roll up in a
clean cloth and lay away.
Wool WASTE for grass lands is com
mendcd, spreading it on the grass late in
the fall, Just as it comes from the mill.
The odor which arises from it renders it
Objectionable as top dressing for lawns
about dwellings; but for meadows it is as
serted to be excellent.
CHARLOTTE RUssE-Take a box of
sparkling gelatine, pour on it scant pint
and a half of cold water; when it has stood
ten minutes add same quantity of boiling
water, and stir till the gelatine is dissolved !;
stir in half pound of white sugar; have
ready six eggs well beaten separately, and
then together, and when the jelly is cool,
but not concealed, beat it into the eggs
whip very lightly three pints of rich
cream, favored with vanilla or almond or
BOTH and when the eggs and jelly begin
to CONCEAL, beat it in as rapidly as possible,
and pour the mixture in bowl lined with
lady fingers or sponge cake.-Couat1y
GeRtlemdR.
CHICKEN SALAD.-Ten pounds chicken
before it is cooked; four punches of celery !;
yollls of twelve raw eggs beaten stiff; add
slowly three-quarters of a bottle of sweet
oil, beating all tire time; add salt, pepper
and mustard, mixing these with vinegar;
when all beaten in, and just before pour
ing on to the chopped chicken and celery,
add one-half cup cold water to whiten the
dressing; add also, very slowly, the well
beaten whites of the eggs. Cut the boiled
chicken with knife, and do not chop it,
also, cut the celery with Il knife. This
makes salad enough for twenty persons.
Do not pour the dressing on to the chick
en- and celery until just before serving it.
BEST TINE TO PAINT HoUsEs-The
T'echnologist SAYS: The best time for paint
ing the exterior of buildings is late in all-
tumn or during the winter. Paint then
applied will endure twice as long as when
applied in early summer or in hot weather.
In the former it dries slowly and becomes
hard, like glazed surface, not easily at
iected by the weather or worn Off by the
beating of storms. But in hot weather the
oil in the paint soaks into the wood at
once as into IA sponge, leaving the lead
nearly dry and nearly ready to crumble
OH MS last ullIculty, however, might III
a measure be guarded against, though at
an increased expense, by first going over
the surface with raw oil. BY painting in
cold weather one annoyance might Ger
tainly be cscaped--namcly, the collection
of flies on the fresh paint.
LIME AND SALT MIxTURE-Professor
johnson recommends for fertilizing pur-
poses to mix one bushel of salt and two
bushels of dry lime under cover, and allow
the mixture to decompose gradually, thus
forming an intimate chemical union of the
two materials. For this purpose the mix
ture should be made at least six weeks be-
fore use, or still better, two or three
months, the heap mentioned being turned
over occasionally. This salt and lime
mixture, when applied at the rate of twen-
ty or thirty bushels per acre, forms an ex-
cellent top-dressing for many crops. 1t
acts powerfully on the vegetable matter of
soils; titty-six bushels applied to a turnip
crop have produced as large a crop as
barnyard manure. 1t is also very destruc-
tive to grubs and insects in the soil Like
salt, it attracts moisture from the air, and
is useful against drouth. Its decomposing
power is remarkable, and if three or four
bushels of it are mixed with load of
swamp muck, the latter will be reduced to
a powder.