American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
FARM AND HOME.

To make cream toast heat sweet
cream over steam until hot. but do not al
low it to boil add little salt, dip the
toast in the cream, and send all that re-
mains to the table in gravyboat. This
toast is delightful when properly made;
but if the cream boils, or is cold, or the
toast soaks or cools, it is insipid.
To make rich buns, mix one pound
and half of flour with half a pound of
sugar; melt pound and two ounces OF
butter in a little warm water; add six
spoonfuls OF rose-water, and knead the
bread into a light dough- with half a pint
of yeast; then mix five ounces of caraway
in. and put some on them.
TO make scrambled eggs have spider
hot and buttered; break the eggs into
dish, being careful not to break the yelks;
slip them into the spider, add a very little
salt, with butter the size of nutmeg for
a half dozen eggs, or three tablespoonful
of rich cream. When the eggs begin to
whiten stir carefully from the bottom I'M
til cooked to suit. The yelks and whites
should be separated, though stirred to-
gcther.
The most healthy pie crust is made of
thin, sweet cream and flour, with a little
salt. Don't knead thin. Bake in a quick
oven. Another way is to sift a quart or
two of flour in the pan. Str in the center
a little salt and half a teaspoonful of soda
we'll pulverized Now put in the hole a
cup of soft mot liquid lard, or butter and
lard mixed, stir it thoroughly with the
flour; next add two scant cups of good
sour milk or buttermilk. Stir all quickly
with the flour in such way that you need
hardly touch it with your hands till you
can roll it out. Bake quick This will
make three or four pies.-Rurdl Ne,c
Yorker.
lin hot weather it is almost impossible
to prevent the sinks becoming foul, unless
some chemical preparation is used. One
pound of copperas dissolved in four gall
Ions of water, poured over a sink three or
four times, will completely destroy the
offensive odor. As disinfecting agent,
to scatter around premises affected with
any unpleasant odor, nothing is better than
mixture of four parts dry ground plaster
of Paris to one part fine charcoal, by
weight. All sorts of glass vessels and
other utensils may be etfectually purified
from offensive smells by rinsing them
with charcoal powder after the gr0sser i'm
purities have been secured off with sand
and soap.-Erchange.n : sa.
"A practical farmer writes: II think
they must be poor farmers who allow
their fences to drive them into the middle
of the fields. Is have a good many rail
fences, but they do not occupy much
ground, for get good many loads of
hay out of the corners of my fences, and
of the best quality. Good, high fences
serve for wind-breaks, and crops are
always better along fences than in the cen.
ter of large, square fields A man who
will allow fence to occupy ten feet in
width of ground should turn his attention
to something else besides farming. The
convenience of small fields, the greater
growth of grass and grain along fences if
the corners are moved every year (and no
farmer will neglect that) will pay all the
cost of keeping up fences. A rail fence
ought not to occupy more than eight
inches of gropad at most