American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,

For paste for papering on a board
ceiling put in gill of melted glue to Il
painful of ordinary paste.
TO destroy cabbage worms make a
strong solution of soft soap and water
and sprinkle the plants with it. 1t will
destroy the worms and stimulate the
growth of the cabbages
To make potato cakes, take mashed
potatoes, flour and little salt; to make
them sweet add little powdered loaf
sugar; mix with just enough milk to
make the paste stiff enough to roll /;
make it the size and thickness of a muf-
fin and bake quickly.
To Cook Eggs a Ia Bonnie Femme
Slice an onion, fry it in butter to light
brown. add Il teaspoonful of vinegar
butter a dish, spread the onion and vim
cgar over it, break the eggs into it and
then put the dish into the oven; when
the eggs are done strew fried bread
crumbs over them and serve very hot.
To keep red ants out of cupboards,
etc, dip few sponges in highly-sweet-
epcd water and place them in the way
of the ants They will soon be full of
the red pests; then dip them in boiling
water, which kills them. Repeat the
process until the whole colony is cap
tured.
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the ham on a tray: make missions over
it with sharp knife some two or three
inches deep and stuff these with a dress
ing made of crackers cooked to brown
crisp and crumbled fine; add salt, pep
per, egg, butter, parsley and onion
chopped fine, then bake it brown in a
moderate heat and serve when cold.
Rice, large pearl sage and tapioca
are best when the pudding is made with
out eggs; sprinkle little of any one OF
the above at the bottom Of pudding
dish, add little sugar and fill up with
milk; stir well before placing in the
cinnamon broken up. The rice must
bake quite four hours; the sage and
tapioca about three. Skim milk viii dc
if you cannot spare the new milk.
BY simple process steel may be
made so hard that it will pierce any sub
stance but diamond Jewellers, lapi-
diaries and miners, who wish to give then
drills this degree of hardness, have but
to subject them to the following treat
ment: The tool is first brought to a
white heat, and then pressed into stick
of sealingwa left there for a second
and then removed and inserted into the
wax in another place. This operation
should be repeated until the instrument
is too cool to enter the wax.
Cream Renversee.-Mixt three table
spoonfuls of flour with a gill of cold
milk, and then add gill of scalded
milk. Put in a saucepan over the fire
and stir until it begins to thicken, then
take it off and add four ounces of white
sugar and the yolks of four eggs, with a
| tcaspoonful of lemon extract or any
flavor you like; then beat the whites OF
the eggs to a stiff froth and stir it in the
mixture; place it in a buttered pan OF
mold and set it in kettle of boiling
water to rise. After it has risen bake il
it in a mild oven, and, when cool, turn il
out on a dish upside Observation-Disclosures.
To make cucumber catsup. take large
green cucumbers just before turning
yellow, wash them, but do not pare them
cut them open take out the seeds; crate
them on a coarse crater. Then put the
pulp into IL sieve to drain, and when all
the juice is out put into dish and sea
son with salt and pepper to suit the
table. Put into bottles or glass cans
with glass covers; then fill full of cold
cider vinegar and seal tight. Do not fill
the bottles or cans to the top with the
pulp, as you will not have room for the
vinegar. Leave three inches. This is
the way | make it, and we think it very
nice.
good home made vinegar: l. To one pint
of strained honey add two gallons of soft
water Let it stand in moderately
warm place. In three weeks it will be
excellent vinegar. 2. Boil a pint of corn
till it is a little soft put it into IA jar; add
| il pint of molasscs and four quarts OF
water; mix well together and set neal
| the stove. In two days it will be good
| beer, in two or three weeks it will be
| first-rate vinegar The same corn will
do for several months When the vine
gar is made pour it off and add molasses
and water to the corn. We have not
tested these recipes, but give them as we
find them in the books.
The famous dye called henna, which
has been in use among Oriental nations
from very ancient times, is procured
from the shrub Lawsonia alba, of the
natural order Lythrace;e. The plant is
often cultivated for the sake of its flow
ers, which are exceedingly fragrant; but
it is mainly priced for its leaves, which
| abound in coloring matter. These last,
being dried, powdered and made into Il
paste with hot water and catechu, are
employed by the women of the East to
stain the nails and tips of the fingers OF
an orange color. The men also use it to
dye their beards-the orange being con-
verified into Il deep black by indigO-and
the names and hoofs of horses. 1t is
also used to give to skins and leather the
hue of reddish-yellow.