American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Rose Vinegar.-Fresh rose leaves,
four pounds, white vinegar, two gallons,
rhodium wood, eight ounces, tincture
benzoin, eight ounces. Macerate for two
weeks and distil.-D1usgist.
To repair rubber boots, take gutta
percha and dissolve it in chloroform to
the thickness of honey. Warm the paste
when ready to use, and apply with
brush. Patches can be put on very neatly
in this way, and will stand all the ele-
ments but heat"
-"Fried Curls One cup of sugar, one
cup of cream, one egg, one teaspoonful OF
soda roll the dough thin, cut in strips
half inch wide tor wider, if desired) wind
them round stick, some larger than
lead pencil leaving room for the dough Ia
spread. When cooked, drop in white
sugar, nicely frosting them.
To Clean Gloves.-Make thick
mucilage by boiling little tlaxseed, to
which add little dissolved soap, and
when the mixture cools wipe the gloves
with piece of white flannel, previously
fitting them 10 the hand. Use only
enough of the cleansing mixture to take
off the dirt without voting through the
glove.
-Chapped Hands.-The easiest and
simplest remedy for chapped hands is
found in every storeroom. Take common
starch and pulverize with the blade of a
knife until reduced to the smootheSt pow
der Every time the hands are taken from
the suds or dish-water, wipe them, and
while yet damp, rub a portion of the
starch upon them, thoroughly covering
the whole surface. The effect is magi-
cal.
Tea Biscuits.-Make n good soda or
cream biscuit, mold it, and roll it out half
the thickness of common biscuit; spread
it over with three or four spoonfuls of
melted butter; then over this, sprinkle
half cofiee-cup of the best sugar; then
begin and roll up compactly, as you would
a roll of jelly cake; slice your roll off into
inch thick slices; lay these flat on your
tin and bake as biscuit. They are nice
cold.
Delicious Dressing for Fowls. -
Spread pieces of stale but tender wheaton
bread literally with butter and season
rather highly with salt and pepper, work
ing them into tine butter little: then dip
the bread in wine, and use it in as large
pieces as is convenient to stuff the bird.
The delicious flavor which the wine gives
is very penetrating, and gives to the fowl
rich gamy character which is very
pleasant.
Queen of Puddings.-Take one pint
of nice bread crumbs, one quart of milk,
one cup of sugar, the yolks of four eggs,
well beaten; the rind of fresh lemon
grated, piece of butter the size of an
egg; then bake until done. Now beat the
whites of the four eggs to a stiff froth,
add teacup of white sugar into which
has been previously stirred the juice of
the lemon; spread over the pudding a
large glass of jelly, then pour over the
pudding the white of the eggs. Place in
the oven until lightly Drowned. Serve
with cold cream.
We stated, says Gdlignani's Messenger,
a short time ago that a Belgian peasant
| had made the extraordinary discovery
| that earth, coal and soda, mixed up to-
| gether, would burn as well and better
| than any other combustible and the fact
| has since then been proved beyond a
| doubt. The way in which he found this
! out is curious. He had been scraping the
| floor of his cellar in order to bring all the
bits of coal lying about into a heap,
| which, mixed as it was with earth and
other impurities, he put into the stove.
| To his establishment he found that this
| accidental compound burnt better instead
of worse than he expected, and emitted
i much greater heat. Being an intelligent
man he endeavored to discover the cause,
and found that a great deal of soda, prob
ably the remnant of the last wash, lay
about on the floor of the cellar, and that
1
He then made a few experiments and at
length improved his compound sufficient
| ly to render it practical.
| 1T may not have occurred to every
one-at all events it is not noticed in any
of our treatises on practical pharmacy
that the easiest way to take out a stopper
which has become fixed in the neck of a
bottle is to reverse the motion given to
it when put in, that is to knock the stop
per from right to left. In most instances
when a stopper is fixed, without the in
PREVENTION of an adhesive substance, it is
by turning it as one would drive a screw
The direction is almost invariably from
left to right, and thus thread is formed,
which it is easier to follow backward
than to break. The trouble with which
the removal of shoppers is usually attend
ed must form an apology for introducing
a suggestion of so little apparent import
ance.