American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-18
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Mouth glue is made by dissolving,
with the aid of heat, pure glue, as parch-
ment glue or gelatine, with about a
quarter or third of its weight of coarse,
brown sugar, in as small a quantity of
boiling water as possible. This, when
perfectly liquid, should be cast into thin
cakes, on flat surface very slightly oiled,
and as it cools cut up into pieces of CON
venient size. When required for use
moisten one end. A piece kept in the
desk or workbox is exceedingly con-
venient.
"A Cracked Wheat Pudding-Take
one quart of unskimmed milk, add to it
one gill of cracked wheat, uncooked, and
one gill of sugar and small piece of
stick cinnamon. Place 1t in an oven of
medium heat. When about half done
stir in the crust already formed and leave
it to form another, which will be suffi-
GENTLY brown. Try when it is done by
tasting grain of the wheat, which must
be very soft. This, when cold, makes a
delicious creamy pudding. A handful of
raisins is an addition
Best Apple Pie.-Take deep dish, the
size of SOUP plate, fill it heaping with
peeled art apples, cored and Quartered :;
pour over it one teacup of molasses and
three great spoonfuls of sugar, dredge
over this considerable quantity of flour,
d
Cover it with crust made of cream, if
you have 1t; if not, common dough with
butter worked in, or plain pie-crust, lap
ping the edge over the dish and pinching
it down tight, to keep the strip from run
ming out. Bake about an hour and a
half. Make several at once, as they will
keep we'll.
But, though insoluble in pure water,
carbonate of lime is slightly soluble in
water WI ich is already charged with car
bonic acid and as all rain-water brings
down carbonic acid from the air it is capa-
BILE of taking up carbonate of lime from
the soils and rocks through which it fill
tiers; and it thus happens that all springs
and rivers that rise in localities in which
there is any kind of calcareous rock be-
come more or less charged with carbonate
of lime kept in solution by an excess of
carbonic acid. This is what gives the pc
culiar character to water which is known
as hardness and a water hard enough
to curdle soap may he converted into a
very " SOFT water (as the late Prof. Clark,
of Aberdeen, showed) by the simple addi-
ton of llme-water, which by combining
with the excess of carbonic acid causes the
precipitation of all the lime in solution in
the form of insoluble carbonate, which
gradually settles to the bottom, leaving the
water clear" 4 Piece Of Limestone" in
Popular Science Monthly.
An exchange gives the following
recipe for the "Queen of All Puddings -
Soak teacup of tapioca and a teaspoon
full of salt in three tumblerfuls of warm
mot hot water for an hour or two, till
softened. Take away the skin and cores
of apples without dividing them, put them
in the dish, with sugar IN the holes, and
spice if the apples are without flavor, not
otherwise. Add a cup of water and bake
till the apples are softened, turning them
to prevent drying, and then pour over the
tapioca and bake long time, till all looks
brownish yellow. Eat with hard
sauce. Do not fail TO bake long time.
This can be extensively varied by mixing
chopped apples, or ounces, or oranges,
or peaches, or any kind of berries with
the tapioca, and then sugar must be added
according to the acid of the fruit, though
some would prefer it omitted when the
sauce is used. The beauty may be in
creased by a cover of sugar beaten into
the whites of eggs and then turned to a
yellow in the oven. Several such pud-
dings can be made at once, kept in a cool
place, and, when wanted, warmed over
many relish it better when very cold.
Sage can be used instead of tapioca.