American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

Few housekeepers know that the
expressed juice of garlic is an everlasting
cement for broken china, glassware and
the like, leaving no mark of fracture if
neatly done.
-Sunduland Pudding-Beat eggs to
ftoth. Mix | cup of flour with 1 quart
OF milk, 1 teaspoon of salt, and stir the
eggs into it. Bake in cups about twenty
minutes. Serve with sauce.
Cold Sauce tablespoons of sugar.
of butter. When these have been rub
bed until very white and smooth, add the
beaten white of an egg. Flavor it and
mold it into some pretty shape.
Pudding Sauce.-4 tablespoons of
sugar, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 table
spoon of flour, beaten to a cream. Add
| the white of an egg beaten to IL frOth and
pour into the whole gill of boiling wa
| ter, stirring it very fast. Flavor with
lemon, rose water, nutmeg or wine.
The Agriculturist gives this remedy
for founders: AS soon as the horse is
found to be stiff, swab the legs and feet
with hot water-so hot that the hand can
not bear to touch it, but not SO hot as to
scald. After short time the legs should
| be rubbed dry and the horse gently exer-
remedy the trouble.
a
of ammonia-stone Carbonate of ammonia)
the size of walnut, and put it in cup
of warm water. When dissolved, take a
piece of clean flannel and dip it in the So
luton and rub the collar two or three
| times with it. 1t will also remove the
glossy appearance along the seams and
upon the elbows.
-Appledore Pudding-Line a pudding
dish with stale cake. Fill it within three
inches of the top with berries or currants.
Allow a haltcup of sugar to swell berries,
and one cup of currants or anything tart
Cover the whole with cake, and wet it
with half-cup of wine. Bake half an
hour, and frost it with the whites of two
eggs and one cup of sugar beaten to a
stiff froth. Return it to the oven, and let
it brown slightly.
An excellent article for cleansing
grease from clothes was vended at the
Danbury fair, according to the Nesos- 1t
was in cake FORM about one inch long,
half-inch broad, and about an eighth of an
inch thick. These cakes were enclosed
in little gilt boxes, and the seller disposed
of an immense number of them at % cents
apiece. What the buyers thought when
the cake of grease-annihilator proved to
be slip from bar of yellow soap, a No.
2 lead pencil is hardly equal to express.
-Gelatine Pudding.-One-half box of
galatine dissolved in One-half pint of cold
| water. Beat the yolks of four eggs, add
| three tablespoons of sugar, and turn into
| the gelatine and water. Have ready a
quart of boiling milk set in a kettle of
boiling water. Pour the mixture into the
milk, and stir it until it boils. Remove
it from the fire, and stir in the whites of
the four eggs beaten to froth. Flavor
with lemon, vanilla or almond. Mold it
and use it the next day.
Pope corn at Dessert think need
| not tell how to pop corn, need /? 1t is
the best way to have corn-popper; then
| and vary the degree of heat as seems nee
essary. Many imagine that the pop corn
| is more tender or brittle if taken from the
| hot fire and shaken about in the cold air
| as quickly as possible. Children are apt
| to stuff themselves with popcorn when
| they are not in the least need of a meal.
| Popcorn is food, and such a crowded
condition of the stomach produces dis
comfort, and so popcorn is supposed to
be unwholesome. 1t is quite the contrary
if eaten as food with the regular meal,
and properly chewed Try it with milk
and apple-sauce or with any good fruit
| sauce.-Cor. american Agricutturist.
| The Neao Yorker says that the skin of
an animal, whether COW, calf, colt or
horse that dies on the farm, is worth
more at home than at the tanners. Cut 1t
| into narrow strips, and shave of the hair
with a sharp knife before the kitchen fire
or in your workshop, on stormy days and
evenings. You may make them soft by
rubbing. A rawhide halter strap an inch
wide will hold a horse better and last
longer than an inch rope. 1t is stronger
than hoOp-iron and more durable, and
may be used to hoop dry casks and boxes,
and for hinges. Try it on a broken thill,
or any woodwork that has been split
Put it on wet and nail fast. Thin skins
make the best bag-strings in the world
A raw-hide rope is good substitute for a
chain. 1t is valuable to mend a broken
link in a trace chain. For some purposes
it is best to use it in its natural state. Fol
some purposes it may be dressed soft.
Economy in Cooking.-I sometimes
meet people who seem to think that all
economy, especially in cooking, is mean
ness. People who have everything to buy
soon learn, if they are attentive, that but
ter and eggs and sugar are very expensive
items in the family. They ar all good in
their place, but they are often used sc
freely as to interfere greatly with the com
fort and prosperity of the family
Lucy Maria observes that ''house
keepers add grease and sweeten
ing at the approach of company" Il
does seem that some people imagine thai
good cooking consists in using grea
proportion of shortening, sweetening ant
tightening in the way of butter, lard ant
eggs. They pile these into things tina
would be quite good enough, and fal
more digestible without them. Are thest
the people who cannot afford to buy nice
fruit-to say nothing of books and news
papers? Are they the ones who think i
extravagant to get good playthings for thu
children ?-Agrtculturtst.