American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

TIP-ToP CAKE-One and a half cups
white sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two
eggs, the white separated from the yelk
and beaten to a stiff froth Butter size of
a tablespoon bowl, melted and turned into
the milk two teaspoonfulS of cream tar
tar, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoon
ul of lemon, and little salt.
SPONGE CAKE.-Four eggs the white
beaten until a plate could be turned
quickly over without spilling the con
tents; one cup fine sugar, the yelks and
sugar beaten to cream; one and a half
cups of flour; soda size of pea dissolved
in a spoonful of cold water; a little salt
Bake in deep tin, in quick oven.
IT is within the experience of many to
find stove-pipes that were put away in the
spring apparently sound almost eaten up
with rust when taken out in the fall for
use. A cheap and effectual remedy for
the rust is the application of coal or lin
seed oil. When the pipe or sheet iron is
new, apply coal or linseed oil inside and
out. 1t does not disfigure the iron, and is
not apparent after the first day that fire is
made. Afterwards, every spring when the
stove is taken down, clean the inside of
the pipe and apply coal oil thoroughly to
the inside, and the rust will not disturb
the iron.
OLD RECIPE FOR CUsTARDs-The an
tiquity of the following may be as accepta-
BILE as its excellence. The date of it is
1863: Take two quarts of cream, and boil
it well with whole spice, then put in the
yolks of twelve eggs, and six whites, well
beaten and strained; then put in these eggs
over the fire, and keep stirring lest they
turn; then, when they are thoroughly hot
take it off and stir it till almost cold then
put in rose-watef and sugar.. and take out
the whole spice; then put your custard in
to several things to bake, and do not let
them stand too long in the oven. When
you serve them, strew on small French
| which you please.
| the hives by smoking the bees. DIR.
Chairvou's system is now coming into
general use. Select bright, clear, sunny
| day; place large table-cloth under the
| hive, and introduce inside a good quarter
| of an ounce of chlorofOrm on a pocket
handkerchief; then knot the table-cloth
| on the top of the hive SO as to exclude the
air; loud buzzing will be heard, similar
| to when the bees are about swarmlng, and
at the end of few minutes complete sll-
ence will lensue. : Unite the table-cloth,
raise the hive, and the bees will be found
| in a lethargic heap on the cloth, and the
few remaining inside will prove too
drowsy to interfere with the removal of
the combs. On exposing the bees to sun
and air, they will gradually waken up and
| return to their hives. r-7
| LEMONS are recommended as very whole
some and useful in certain states of the
system. People often crave an acid of
some kind, particularly in the warm,
weakfeeling days of spring and early
| summer. When lemons are cheap in the
market it may not be amiss to purchase a
| quantity and prepare them for future use.
The following method is suggested: Press
out the juice of the lemons, and remove
the seeds, which give a bitter taste separ-
ate the pulp from the peel, and boil the
former in the proportion of a dozen pulps
to pint of water, to extract the acid. Ten
minutes boiling is sufficient; strain the
water into the juice; add pound of white
sugar to pint of juice; boil the whole
ten minutes, and bottle it. One or two
tablespoonful of this lemon syrup in a
glass of water will make a cooling, health
full beverage.
BoNEs-A writer in the Horticulturist
buys bones of butcher at a dollar the
hundred pounds, and considers them the
cheapest fertilizer he can obtain. He
transforms them into meal by the follow
ing simple and effective process: Il have
a large water-tight hogshead standing out
doors, near the kitchen. In the spring l
cover the bottom about six inches deep
with dry soil. On this I put layer of
bones about the same depth, and cover
them entirely with unleached ashes. On
these another layer of bones, then ashes,
and so on until the hogshead is full.
leave it then exposed to the sun and rain
all summer and winter, until the next
spring. Then, on removing the contents
of the hogshead, l find nearly all the
bones so soft that they will crumble to
powder under very slight pressure, and,
mixed with the ashes and the soil, they
| give nice little pile of most valuable
manure, ready for immediate use Any
of the bones not sufficiently subdued, l
return to the hogshead again for another
| twelve months slumber."