American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

| Cherry Pie-Stone the cherries,
make paste in the ordinary way put in
| the fruit, add sugar and n little water.
| Stir d Tablespoonful of flour smoothly
into two of writer, and spread it evenly
on the edge of the paste; put on the
cover and bake till done. All fruit pies
can, by using this mixture of flour and
water, be kept from running over in the
| oven.
| How to Make Cake.-Do not leave
the oven-door open, or change the cake
from one oven to the other, except in ey-
trerne eases. If it hardens too fast on
I tie top, cover with paper. Ii should rise
| to full height before the crust forms.
Except for gingerbread use none but
white sugar. Always sift the flour BE
accurate in your weights and measures
| Western Rural.
| -Holy-Poly Pudding.-Take n crust of
! equal parts of Graham -four and fine corn
meal, wet with rice boiled quite soft in six
parts of water Knead lightly and roll
out rs thin as it will hold together. Then
! sprcat, on wnortIeberrics or blackbcrries
or rhubarb or gooseberries, and, begin
| ming at one end roll it over upon itself.
Sew up in cloth and boil or steam one
hour and IA half. Then take off the cloth
and cut in slices crosswise, and serve
hot, with strawberry pudding sauce or
some other sweetened fruit juice.
-Sherbet-Rub the yellow rird Of
I three lemons with iumps of sugar to get
the flavor. Squeeze the juice of six
lemons and carefully take out the seeds.
Put the sugar and Juice with one pound
81 iilce white sugar in half a gallon of
water. Beat to stiff fro h the whites
of hve eggs, sti' ring in two tablespoon
fuls of pulveI. zed white sugar. Then
slowly stir it in the lemonade and put it
Immediately in a patent freezer, with salt
and ice around the freezer Uhe same as
for ice -creaml. and turn it until it is frozen
as hard rs ycu wish it. This Is very del
icate and resembles dish of snow.
None but patent freezers should be used,
however, as it must be stirred Con-
stantly.
Green Tomato Pickles.-One peck
green tomatoes, half head of ii good
sized cabbage, two punches Of celery, or,
what is better, ii little celery-seed, half
pint of white mustard-seed; also three or
four small carrots, using only the red part,
six onions, five large bell peppers. Chop
them and mix them together, sprinkle
over IA cup of fine salt, let it remain over
night; drain well, sprinkle in the seeds
and pour over one pint of molasses. Take
three pints of vinegar, two tablespoons
of ground aliSpicc, two tablespoons OF
ground cloves, two tablespoons of ground
cinnamon, two tablespoons of ground
yellow mustard. Heat the spices in the
vinegar and pour over scalding hot. This
should be kept four or five months before
using
The same principles that apply to
the summer pruning of trees and shrubs
apply with equal force to those canes
that grow one season and bear fruit and
die the next. Raspberries, if left to
their own course, grow tall and slender,
branching but little, and, falling over,
trail upon the ground. Some allow them
to grow thus through the season and then
cut them back to the desired height; but
if pinched off when they reached the
proper height, from twenty inches to two
feet, much of the material pruned off
would have been appropriated in form
ing laterals and in increasing the size of
the canes. So with blackberries, pinch
ing them off at the height OF two feet
causes them to grow stocky, throw out
| laterals and form compact head.-N.
Y. Herald.
An Ohio farmer writes as follows: Il
have IA town lot planted in early potatoes,
| which for the last two years has been al
| lowed to grow up thick with mustard af
ter the potatoes were worked out the last
| time. AS result, mustard came up very
thick this spring before the potatoes APP
peared, and when the plants were up
the ground was so dry and hard l could
not have them worked. This mustard is
very thick among them, but it does not
seem to interfere in the least with their
growth. have just been all over the
lot, and hasten to report nary bug l
was among the vines last week often, and
| only captured two. My neighbors, whose
potatoes are not as smart as mine for
| want of mustard), are undergoing fear
full struggle for life. The present pros
poets seem strongly to indicate their ul
innate failure. As for mustard being
remedy for bugs, l will only state the
above facts