American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-21
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

| DOmESIlC ECONOMYs
SCATTERED PoTATOEs.-Thisp alata-
BILE Scotch dish is made by taking cold
boiled potatoes, laying them on live
Goals, and turning them until the brown
ness of toast is acquired. Eat with salt
and butter to taste.
BATTER PUDDING.-1 pint milk, 4
eggs beaten separately, 2 even cups
flour, tablespoonful salt and a pinch
of soda; bake in buttered dish three
quarters of an hour; serve in same dish
as soon as done, with rich sauce.
OMELETrE.-6 eggs, cup of milk, l
tablespoonful of flour, pinch of salt
Beat the whites and yelks sepa ately.
Mix the flour, milk and salt, add the
yelks, then the whites; have a buttered
spider very hot; pour in and bake in a
quick oven five minutes.
| TOAST WATER.-Brown slices of toast
witout burning, and pour over them
enough boiling water to cover. Cover
closely and let them steep until cold.
Strain the water; put in a little lemon
juice and sweeten to the taste. Serve
in small glass with piece of ice in it.
PARsNIP SrEw.-Cut thin layers Of
pork and place in the bottom of the ket-
tie; then put in layer of par5nips cut
rather thin. then layer of potato, then
parsnips again; and so on, till you have
enough; to season put in water enough
to just cook them nicely, and let them
fry brown.
CHEAP FRUIT CAKE.-1 cup of but
termilk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 eggs,
1 cup sugar, tablespoonfuls of molas-
ses, teaspoonful essence of lemon, ]
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves
and allspice, Z cup of butter, or meat
fryings will do, II cups of chopped
raisins.
PoAcHED EGGs.-To poach eggs,
have a spider, or basin of water, in
which put little vinegar Ito prevent
the egg sticking); have this hot, but
not boiling, and drop in the egg; let the
water cover the egg; when done take
out, dust little salt and pepper over,
and butter if liked. Eggs cooked in this
way very rare are good for sick people.
| CONVENIENT GLUE DIsH.-Take a
tin spice-box that holds pound, put in
8 cents worth of glue, broken into small
pieces; white out a little spatula from
wood, just long enough to stand in the
box, fill the box half full of water, and
set on the stove to heat. When through
using it put on the cover and set in q
cool place; it is always convenient and
handy.
COTTAGE PUDDING.-1 cup of sugar,
l tablespoonful of butter, eggs, cup
of sweet milk, 8 cups of -four, or enough
to make tolerably stiff batter; tea
spoonful of soda, teaspoonful cream
tartar sifted with the flour, small tea
spoonful of salt; cream the butter and
sugar. beat in the yelks of the eggs,
then the milk and soda, the salt and the
beaten whites alternately with the flour.
Bake in buttered mold, turn out upon
a dish. and eat with liquid sauce. This
is simple, but very nice, pudding.
CORN STARCH MERINaUE.-4e eggs, 1
quart of milk, cup of sugar, tea
spoonfuls of corn-starch, 1 cup of jelly
or jam. Heat the milk to boiling and
stir in the corn-starch, which has previ-
ously been dissolved in q little cold
water; boil Is minutes, stirring all the
time; remove from the fire and while
still hot add gradually the yelks of the
eggs, beaten up with the sugar and
favored with vanilla or lemon; pour
this into pudding dish, well buttered,
| and bake Is minutes, or until the GUS
tard begins to set. Draw to door of the
oven and spread quickly and lightly up
on it a meringue of the whites, beaten
stiff with j cup of jelly. Bake, covered,
| for minutes; then brown slightly.
Eat cold, with powdered sugar sifted
thickly over the top.
WALL PAPER.-Sometimes spots will
accidentally get upon papered walls
that deface them badly. If it should be
a grease spot, q paste of hot laundry
starch, made very thick and spread on
while boiling hot, quite thick over the
surface of the spot, and left till dry,
then rubbed off with soft cloth, will
remove all the grease and not deface
the paper. An ink spot, or other dark
stain, can be cut out with sharp PEN
knife, pulled off, and bit of new paper
matched and pasted over, which may
save the trouble and expense of repair
ing the whole room. Wien the paper
is dingy with smoke, take a quart of
wheat bran and tie up in a thin bag
loosely, and rub the walls with it quite
hard. Shake up the bran occasionally,
and you will be quite surprised to see
how clean and nice it makes the paper
look, well paying for the labor of clean
ing. When the edges Of the paper
start up. little paste or starch, applied
with your finger to the under edge, and
pressed down with the surface, smooth,
will keep the walls neat in appearance
and well preserved.
Three Successful Women.