American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

If you don't look carefully after the
bits of your horse, you may one day be
looking after the bits of your wagon.
A NEW artificial butter is described by
the Moniteur Scientifque as composed of
fresh beef suet, with water added previ-
ously, mixed with carbonate of soda. A
sleeps stomach is thrown in, and the
mixture is constantly stirred, at tenn
perature of about no degrees Fahrenheit.
The fat rises pure to the surface, is run
into pans, pressed, and sent to market.
1t is odorless, of the consistency of but
ter, and remains unaltered for months.
How TO Cook BEEF STEAK.-Have
your steak cut thick, put it on your meat
board and with sharp pointed knife
prick it every imaginable way to make it
tender, put it on your gridiron over a
clear fire, turning it very often. Put a
lump of butter, and some salt and pepper
into tin dish. Put you steak
dish where it will get warmed.
When the steak is cooked, put it into the
tin dish and double it over, pressing out
all the blood you can, and lay the steak
on your plate. Set the tin dish with
the blood, pepper and salt on the stove,
and as soon as it boils up and thickens,
pour it over your steak. You can add a
can of mushrooms to the gravy. This
recipe was never known to fail
APPLE JELLY.-A nice wholesome,
palatable and economical jelly may be
made in the following manner: Cut or
chop up fquantity of good apples, par
ings, core and all, if free from defects,
and boil thoroughly in water sufficient to
cover them. When soft press through a
coarse cloth, allowing most of the pulp
to pass, and let this stand till cool. Pour
off the clear liquid, add small quantity
of tapioca, dissolved in cold water and
slightly cooked, thin,) with sufficient
white sugar, and then boil away sufficient
to make jelly of the right consistency,
and you have as nice a preserve as an
epicure desires, clear and beautiful. The
bottom, or the pulp, of the first, cooked
with some nice molasses, makes very
fine apple butter, both of which will keep
long time.
Mr.. GALE BORDEN, of White Plains,
N. Y, who conducts an establishment fol-
preparing condensed milk, has been max.
ing some experiments for the purpose of
determining the correct weight of crude
milk. He took the milk of several cows
and, mingling it together, and then tho.
roughly cooling it, he had it accurately
weighed. The result was that a quart OF
milk SO measured and weighed on deli
cate scales, was equal to 3 lbs. 2li OF.
The tests were made with different
| SduipiCS VI Hlilh dL ulIleTCut tlIueS, Dul
without materially altering the weight
MIR. Borden has adopted the above as the
true weight of quart of milk of average
quality. Hence any person who buys
milk may determine by weight, with salts
factory accuracy, whether he receives &
quart when he has to pay for that quantity
WARM WATER FOR PLANTs.-There are
| a great many who laughed at "such non
sense" when it was first proposed to water
house-plants with warm water; but it il
now the rule, and those who do not ust
it are the exception. We notice a con
tributor to the Farm and Garden dilate!
upon its use as follows: Last winter W,
had about one hundred plants in thu
house, and usually gave them warn
water, and very frequently water that wa!
much too warm for the hand. Som,
water at or very near the boiling poin
has been poured into saucers and alons
the sides. We have about forty persons
in the family, from different parts of tn,
| country; and their testimony is that they
never saw such fine geraniums, hello
tropes, fuchsias, verbenas, passion flow
ers, oleanders, etc. These plants show
very marked Improvement. Others hav,
| flourished finely under the treatment"