American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-01-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Unless fruit is packed solid it never
carries well-there must be considerable
pressure TO prevent rafting.
Cup Cake.-One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs,
half nutmeg, one cup of raisins.
"A Cement-A good fire proof and
water proof cement is IA little carriage oil
varnish rubbed upon the edges of broken
china, with a cancels hair brush. This
can hardly be seen and if thoroughly
dried is most excellent.
Filter for Cistern Water-Perforate
the bottom of a wooden box with a number
of small holes; place inside a piece of
flannel, cover with coarsely powdered
charcoal, over this coarse river sand, and
on this small pieces of sandstone.
Apple Tapioca.-Core some tart ap-
pies, fill up the opening with butter and
sugar, and strew some sugar around
them; pour one dessert spoonful of dry
tapioca to each apple; pour some water
around nearly up to the top of the apples.
Bake and serve with cream.
-Ramakins.-Mixa teaspoonfui of flour
with two ounces of melted butter, two
ounces of grated cheese, two tablespoonful
of cream and two well beaten eggs. Stir
all together, and bake in small tins for Il
quarter of an hour. A little Cayenne pep
per may be added if liked.
Stuffed Cabbage-Take a large fresh
cabbage and cut out the heart. Fill the
place with stutfing made of cooked chick
en- or veal, chopped very fine and highly
seasoned rolled into balls with yolk of
egg Then tie the cabbage firmly together,
and boil in Il covered kettle for Two hours.
1t makes IA very delicious dish, and it is
often useful for using small pieces of cold
meat.
How to Boil Clothes-"Daisy Eye
bright" says that clothes which are put
into boiling water when washed, will GER
tainly become yellow. They should be
put into cold water and be allowed to
come to boil slowly and boil twenty
minutes. She furthermore says when
your clothes stick to the lines in winter,
instead of pulling at them, bend or lift
them right where the clothespin was
stuck and they'll come off easy and won't
tear at all.
Economical Use of Nutmegs.-If a
person begins to CRATE nutmeg at the
stalk end, it will prove hollow through
out; whereas the same nutmeg, grated at
the other end, would have proved sound
and solid to the last. This circumstance
may thus be accounted for: The center
of a nutmeg consists of a number of fibres
issuing from the stalk and its continual
ton through the center of the fruit the
OtHeT cnuS Oh WHICH lDeTS, though CLOSELY
surrounded and pressed by the fruit, do
not adhere to it, When the stalk is
grated away, these fibers, having lost
their hold, gradually drop out in success
sion, and the hollow continues through
the whole nut By beginning at the con
trary end the fibers above mentioned are
grated off at their core end, with the sur
rounding fruit, and do not drop out and
cause a hole.
To Clean Last Years Silks.-For the
remaking of last years black silks, may
be recommended an excellent mode of
cleaning. Rub each breadth carefully
with wooden cloth to get the dust from
the surface, then sponge it all off with
water in which one or two black kid
gloves have been boiled, a quart of water
for a pair of gloves; iron while wet, with
extremely hot irons, on the wrong side
For colored silks the same colored gloves
to be boiled. For this purpose it is well
to save old kid gloves Of all coIors. An
other mode tried with great success is
the same process of rubbing off the dirt
with wooden rag; then mix an equal
quantity of strong tea and vinegar, with
which the silk is washed by rubbing it
with piece of flannel. 1t must be
made very wet. Smooth the silk
carefully, folding it, and in about fifteen
minutes iron it on the wrong side with
very :hot irons. This applies only to
black silk, black ribbons, cravats, etc,
but mi ght be injurious to colors.