American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Delicate Cake.-One and half cups
of sugar, half a cup of butter. Rub this
to a cream, add half a cup of sweet milk,
| in which dissolve a half teaspoon OF
soda, and two cups of flour in which one
teaspoon of cream of tartar has been
rubbed Add little salt. Flavor with
vanilla, lemon or nutmeg. Beat the
whites of four eggs to troth and add last.
The successful effort of lady to
break up" sitting hen is thus recorded
in lNoore's Rural: "Picking some splin-
tiers from the chip-yard (some four or five
inches long) she bound them firmly to the
hens legs, leaving only the hip joints in
working order. Biddie was outwitted.
Like the Dutchman's hen, she would have
to sit standing up"
"A distinguished French physician
suggests that the annoyance of hiring wet
nurses may be happily obviated by max
ing infants take their. nourishment direct
from a COW without the Intervention of a
bottle. The trifling Inconvenience of
keeping COW in the nursery, if one has
an apartment four floors up, is, of course,
scarcely worthy of mention.
Prevention of Scarlet Fever.-Dr
Cherbonnier, a graduate of the University
of Paris, and stated to be one of the most
skillful physicians of Baltimore, gives the
following recipe as a preventive of scar
let fever: Extract of belladona, two
grains; cinnamon water, one ounce; alco
hol ten drops. Give two or three times
day. Dose, one drop for every year of
the age of tine child ten drops will be the
maximum dose.
Pure Air.-That the quantity of pure
air absolutely required by an adult is
about one pint at each inspiration, or
over fifty hogsheads every twenty-four
orAn hot N
body may be kept in state of health, is
proof sufficient that the impressible, sensi-
tive nature of children should also have
their rights most sacredly protected all
through their tender years But how
many regard these rights as sacred?
The right way to sweep is to incline
the handle little forward, then give
light drawing stroke, allowing the broom
to scarcely touch the carpet. Not one
half the weight of the broom should be
allowed to press on the carpet as the
dirt is moved forward. Let the dirt be
moved and rolled lightly. If a generous
quantity of fairgrounds, small bits of wet
paper, or clean and wet sawdust can be
spread over the carpet before the sweep
ing is commenced all the fine dirt will
adhere to the wet materials.
Snowflake Cake-Take a half cup
of butter. two cups of white sugar, four
cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk,
three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, and one-half of that quantity of
saleratus. Stir butter and sugar together,
add the beaten yolks of eggs and half the
flour with the cream of tartar in it; turn in
nearly all the milk, dissolve the saleratus
in what is left and add it. Beat the
whites of the eggs and mix in; stir in
the remainder of the flour. Bake in
ielly-cake tins Crate the meat of two
fresh cocoanuts after pairing off the outer
skin add to them one cup of sugar and
the beaten whites of two eggs. Spread
between the cakes, which should have
been baked in three pans. Heap the
cocoanut very high on the top of the
uppermost cake and scatter sugared al
monds among it.