American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.


GREEN TOMATO PIE.-Line tin with
puff paste and thinly sliced tomatoes, q
good handful Of sugar, a little citric
acid, and sprinkle well with flour; COW
er with top crust and bake in hot oven.
CocKRoACHEs.-The Scientific inner
scan says: "a mixture, composed of
part of powdered borax and 2 parts of
powdered sugar, sprinkled upon the
floor where they frequent, will soon
eradicate them"
PUDDING SAUCE.-d pound of butter,
yelks of 2 eggs, and 9 tablespoonful of
sugar. Beat the eggs well, and cream
butter with them. Put it on the fire to
stew, having added TO it wineglass-
fuls OF wine, and part of a nutmeg
grated.
SALAD Dressings eggs, table
spoonful sugar, oil, mustard and salt, 1
cup of vinegar and of milk; beat the
eggs, then add the other ingredients
and stir all together over kettle of
boiling water to the consistency of boil
ed custard. If putin closed bottle
and kept in cool place it will keep
two weeks.
ITALIAN MACARoNI.-Take i pound
macaroni, boil it in water until tender;
thicken pint milk with tablespoonful
flour; add 2 tablespoonful cream,
tablespoonful mustard, a little white
pepper and salt; stir in this pound
grated cheese; boil all together few
minutes; add the macaroni; boil 10
minutes. This Is the mode adopted at
the best tables in Florence.
CoCOANUT PIE.-To grated cocoa
nut add large boiled and mashed po-
tatoes. Boil them fresh and pound
them, add butter. milk, salt and sugar
to taste. Then mix the cocoanut and
potatoes, add the yelks of 8 eggs well
beaten; make crust of 1 pound of
-four and 4 pound of butter; put only
an undercrust; when the pie is baked,
beat the whites of 8 eggs very light,
add little white sugar. and put it on
top while it is hot. Then put it back
in the oven for few moments.
GINGERBREAD.4q quarts of flour,
quart of molasses, 4 tablespeonfuls Of
ginger, 2 large cupfuls of sugar, ia
blespoonfuls of salt, teaspoonful of
soda, cupful of milk, of pound Of
butter, pound of lard, quart of four
to roll with. 1t is important in ginger
bread-making to choose the molasses
judiciously. Sirup never answers, and
yet coarse black molasses is equally OBJ
jectionable. Fair New Orleans is per-
haps the best.
To CURE MUTTON HAMs.-Take the
hind or fore legs of a sheep, and rub
them with the following: Mix 2 table,
spoonfuls of sugar with the same guam
tity of table salt, and tablespoonful of
saltpeter. Place the hams in separate
pans, and rub each one with the same
quantity. Turn twice day for three
days, and rub thoroughly with the hand
at each time, turning away the liquor
which flows from the meat. Then make
a new mixture, and turn and rub daily
for ten days. At each rubbing take care
to leave that side uppermost which was
under before. Then smoke the hams
like those made from pork, and boil in
the same way. Hams prepared in this
way will be relished so much that you
will always have a good supply of them
in the larder.
To Cook VEGETABLE Marrow
This is much finer vegetable than the
summer squash, and can be used for
different purposes. To simply cook it
as a vegetable, place it in steamer, if
you have one, over q pot of perfectly
boiling water, and let it steam from 20
minutes to one half hour. I forgot to
say that you must first pare it and re-
move the seeds from it. Try it, and
when found to be done sufficiently to
mash, take it out into a wooden bowl,
sprinkle little fine salt over, and add
. tablespoonful of butter, then mash all
together very fine, and free from Jumps
with a wooden spoon, and dish upon a
warmed dish. Or it may be steamed in
the same way and served in whole pieces
with a made sauce over it. To make
his sauce, you may use the yelks of
,hree eggs, and six tablespoonful of
milk, or eight of cream, mix well to-
gether and pass through sieve. Add
% this a small pat Of butter, and small
of sugar. Let this boil
slowly, stirring all the time; when taken
rom the fire, add very little squeeze
If lemon-ju juice, and pour over the squash
To make pudding of this yellow win
er squash, you may prepare it as above,
mixing with it a quarter of pound of
,utter, two pounded crackers, or an
equal quantity of grated stale bread.
Stir gradually quarter of pound of
powdered sugar into a quart of rich
milk, and add by degrees the squash
md powdered crackers. Beat nine eggs |
'ery light, and stir them gradually into
he mixture. Add two glasses of any
ZONE made wine, and one tablespoon
I'll of mixed spices, nutmeg, mace and
'innamon powdered. Stir the whole
cry hard till the ingredients are all
thoroughly mixed, bake it three-quar-
ers of an hour in buttered dish, and
prinkle white sugar over it when cold.
This receipt is for rather large squash.
)r you may bake it in one crust, as
lies.