American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-12
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Recipe for Cream Puffs.-Two cups
flour, onc-half cup butter, thrce-fourths
pint hot water Boil the butter and
water together, and stir in the flour
slowly while boiling Let it cook Il few
minutes; add five wcllbcaten eggs;
| drop the mixture on tins and bake in a
quick oven For the custard: One pint
of milk, one-half cup flour, one
pound sugar, two eggs. Let II cool, and
| after the puffs are cold cut them open
| and put in the custard, which can be
| favored with vanilla or lemon to suit
the taste.
Preserving Cut Flowcrs.-Cut flowers
| in vases will keep much longer if the
vases are filed with white sand and with
| water enough barely to cover it, or rather
| to keep it thoroughly wet. Water by
itself rots the stems, SO that they lose the
| power of drawing up moisture; but this
| does not occur so readily where they are
thrust into wet sand. The sand should
be washed by having water poured on it
and drained off before use; otherwise the
salt which all sea-sand contains will
prove injurious. As wet sand is an I'M
handy thing to put into vases, it is well
to have it washed and dry beforehand
| Health Journal.
| -Floriculture.-Alll lovers of flowers
must remember that one blossom allowed
| to mature or Ego to seed" Injuries the
plant more than dozen new buds. Cut
your flowers then, all of them, before
| they begin to fade. Adorn your room
with them; put them on your tables
send bouquets to your friends who have
no flowers; or exchange favors with
those who have. You will surely find
that the more you cut off the more you
| will have. All roses after they have
ceased to bloom should be cut back that
| the strength of the root may go forming
new shoots for next year. On bushes
not seed should be allowed to mature.
--.Scribners.
Floral Pyramids.-It is so easy to
have beautiful objects about us that it is
pity to be without one. Take a soup
plate or a pickle dish and fill it with
sand. Moistcn the sand with water, and
heap it to a cone, and then thrust into
| the wet sand flowers and foliage enough
| to cover the whole surface, and you will
| have, if you arrange it well, the most
beautiful floral ornament that can be
imagined. This is an excellent way for
arranging short-stemmed flowers, or
| those whose petals are too soft to be tied
| without in ury among sitter ones Or
| place in the center of your sOup-plate a
teacup, childs mug or wine glass, in
which insert a made bouquet, and then,
| filling the plate about it with sand, pro-
coed as before. This will give better
cone than the first method Science of
| Health.
| Tanned Peach ruudIng.-SOak one
| pint of picked and washed tapioca in
three pints of boiling water, letting it
| stand three hours, then place in n glass
fruit-can layer of sliced peaches, with
sugar enough to sweeten them, then a
layer of the soaked tapioca, adding alter
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| filled. Then set in kettle in two thirds
the depth of water, heat to the boiling
point, and then boil half an hour; take
| out and seal precisely as you would any
| canned fruit. These will be very con-
| venient in case of any accident happen
ing to your dessert, or of any unexpected
| arrival of company too late to cook a
| dessert, or in case any refreshments are
wanted at an unusual hour, and nothing
is cooked. Serve cold, or put into warm
water and heat to the boiling point.
Ashes as Food for Cattle.-The Lire
Stock Journal has a correspondent who
found his cattle given to the habit of eat
ing wood, chewing bones, etc. They
became thin in flesh refused to eat hay,
and presented sickly appearance. He
had no impression that their food lacked
the constituents for making bone; and his
neighbors used bone-meal, without MOTTO
ing any good results whatever. AT last
he put about four bushels of leached
ashes in his barnyard and threw out to
them about shovelful each day. They
all ate with evident relish After turning
them out to pasture, he put one peck OF
dry ashes per week on the ground in the
pasture They ate it all, and gnawed off
| the grass where it had been lying. The
cattle began to improve, gaining flesh
and looking better than they had done
for several years. He says this morbid
appearance was unnOticed years ago,
| from the fact that the ground was new
and ashy from the burning of the woods
| and land clearings. Since this discovery
he gives one quart of ashes mixed with
one quart of salt to twelve head of cattle
about once Il week.