American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Sponge Cake Pudding.-Butter a
mold well and ornament it with dried
cherries or sultanas, then three parts fill
it with sponge cake, and fill up with
custard. Four sponge cakes, half "A pint
of milk and two or three eggs, swectened
with loaf sugar, make "A nice small pud-
ding. Boil or steam it for half an hour,
and serve with sweet sauce.
Orange -Poley-Make a light
paste as for apple dumplings or valise
pudding, roll in an oblong sheet, and lay
oranges (sweet ones), peeled, sliced and
seeded, thickly all over it. Sprinkle with
white sugar; scatter a teaspoonful or two
of the grated yellow peel over all and
roll up closely, folding down the end to
secure the syrup. Boil in "A pudding
cloth one hour and half Eat with
lemon sauce.
Ministers Pudding-Three eggs, an
equal weight of sugar and butter, and
the weight of two eggs in flour. Melt
the butter, and beat it to a cream; beat
the eggs well, mix them with the butter
and sugar, beating the whole to a froth
then add the flour by degrees, and the
rind of a lemon chopped very finely,
Beat it all together and pour into Il
mold; boil gently for an hour. This
pudding requires as much beating as a
sponge cake. When properly made it is
delicious.
-Whitewood carvings are best mcndet.
with isinglass or white glue. Walnut is
mended with the best dark glue, and
Clipped places filled with putty, which is
then stained to the proper depth with
raw linseed oil mixed with Nandyke
brown, burnt sienna or burnt umber.
This takes weeks to dry, and the carving
should be protected from dust. Where
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not at hand, the edges must be sawed
| smooth and a new strip glued on, when
varnish and polish will hide the mis-
chief. The loss of a curl or two from
arabesque carving may be unnoticed if
the corresponding figure is cut off, the
ends rounded smoothly and repolished or
gilt as the case may be.-Hearh and
Home.
Food for Young Observation-Disclosures
want no food for many hours after they
are Matched, as they are then digesting
the yolk of the egg, which constitutes
their first food, and acquiring strength to
run about. When they begin to peck
they should be fed with soft food and
very small grain. PROFESSIONALLY the
best soft food is an egg beaten up with ii
tablespoonful of milk and heated in the
oven or by the side of the fire until it sets
into soft custard. Chickens fed or par
TALLY 1cQ on tn1S make WOnuefIul prog
ress. If they are to make large fowls,
they must be fed soon after daylight; if
as is too often the case, they are left
hungry for three hours in the morning,
they are always stunted in their growth
They must be fed the first thing, and
while they are young, every two or three
hours during the day.-RuInt World
Clements for leather that will be fieX-
ible, water and fire proof at the same
time are in demand. Pure india rubber
to be had of the dentists commonly, dis
solved in three times as much of the best
chloroform, is simple and excellent for
such purposes as mending overshoes,
sticking upper and under soles of chill
dren's shoes together when they come
apart by wetting, for making shoes water
proof, etc. The rubber must be pure and
cut into fine shavings and left Il long time
closely corked in the chlorotorm, rs it is
difficult to dissolve. When melted, one
third of the solution and two-thirds OF
the best glue, added while boiling makes
good cement for harness. Another
recipe is two ounces of best Russian ism
glass boiled in a pint of ale till dissolved
adding four ounces of the best common
glue When melted, slowly add one and
a half ounces of boiled Iinseed oil, stir
ring till all are mixed. When cold it is
like india-rubber. Shave the leather a
little, brush the cement on while hot
and press the parts together with a
weight over night-Hen1fh and Home.