American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-05
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

DOUGHNUTs.-4 eggs, 2 cups sugar,
sour milk, cup of shortening, tea
spoonful salt, and nutmeg.
NEw-YEAR's CAKE.-24 pounds of
of butter, % pounds sugar, pounds
flour, pint cold water, ounce of am
monia, pound carraway seed.
ENGLISH BREAD PUDDING.-Cut some
light bread in small pieces; boil sutfi-
cient milk with good-sized onion in it
to thoroughly soak it; mix and let stand
awhile, then boil and add butter, pep
per, and salt, and few black pepper
corns; take out the onion before serv-
ing.
APPLE CUsTARD PIEs.-Stew sour ap-
pies until so soft that they will rub
through sieve. To a quart of the
stewed apple, add teacupfuls of sugar,
pint of milk, J cupful of butter and 5
eggs; season with grated lemon-peel,
and bake in puf-paste like custards.
To KILL RATs.-A friend informs us
that he has found fine cornmeal and
plaster-of-paris mixed-3 OF the latter
the best and safest thing in the world to
kill rats. He says that, as the plaster
is tasteless, the rodents eat it along with
the meal, and afterward it absorbs the
/ Juices of the stomach and causes death.
/ WINE JELLY cup of cold water
poured upon box of 'Cox's gelatine;
let it stand until dissolved, then add l
! cup boiling water; l of white or colored
wine as one chooses, 1 cup pulverized
sugar; flavor with what pleases; strain
if you like; put away for an hour or so,
and you will have splendid wine jelly.
ROLLED JELLY CAKE cupful
sugar, cupful flour, eggs, whites and
yelks beaten separately, 2 teaspoonfuls
baking-powder. Bake in a dripping
pan; when done turn the cake out up
side down on towel. Spread with
jelly or icing and roll up carefully. 1t
will not break.
ECONOMICAL MINCE PIE. TO 4
pounds of beef put pound each of suet,
raisins, currants, and sugar, pint mo-
lasses, and cinnamon, cloves and nut
meg each 1 ounce. Season with salt
and pepper to suit taste. Chop the
meat, suet, and apples very fine. Put
quart of the apples to pint of the meat
Mix altogether in a large pan, and ado
cider enough to make juice. Boil slow
ly hour, stirring occasionally. This
will fill a 2-gallon jar, and will keep {
long time if kept in a cool place. The
sirup from picked peaches is very good
, to use in place of cider.
: GOLDFISH BALLS Put the fish to soal
over night in luke-warm water, having
: first cut it in small pieces; the mex
morning boil it 90 minutes; change the
water for boiling hot and boil Is min
utes longer; when cold pick it to pieces
remove all bones and skin; then shred
very fine with fork; add as much COLI
mashed potatoe as fish, lump of but
ter, and little sweet milk; if they ar
' to be extra nice, add beaten egg; fir,
them in hot lard or good drippings OF
3 both sides.
APPLE MARMALADE. Take gooC
tart apples, remove the skins and cores
and cook in as little water as possible
: letting it simmer slowly to thick pulp
: Then to each pint bowlful of the pulp
: take pound of sugar, and melt it in a
! little hot water as possible; add it to tn
pulp, but not until it has boiled to
thick strip. Stir them well together
: and boil for 10 or 10 minutes very slow
ly. When nearly cool, put into small
bowls, but do not cover them until tn
marmalade is perfectly cold. 1t SHOULD
be cut into thin slices when served
Ounce marmalade made in this manne
is very delicious, and if half apples an
, half ounces are used, the flavor is yer.
/, fine.