American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-10
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
AN EXCELLENT CAKE.-1 cup of but
ter, of sugar, the whites of 9 eggs
beaten to froth, 2 cups flour, cup of
cream, 1 teaspoon of extract vanilla.
Bake hour slowly.
DRESS WAsH.-A very nice thing for
a lady to keep is a bottle of this on her
dressing-room table always, for little
spots on her garments: quart of boil
ing water, ounce Of camphor, ounce
of borax; after cooling, pint of alco-
hol.
REPELLING MoTHs.-H fine-cut to-
bacco be sprinkled under the edge of
carpets and under those places where
bureaus, bookcases and the like make it
dark, the moths will be prevented from
laying their eggs in them, as it will
drive them away.
Potato SoUP.-Peel or 10 large po-
tatoes, onions, 2 heads of celery, 1
turnip, carrot, a slice of ham, or lean
bacon; cut all in small squares and
boil them with some broth; when done
with pepper and salt.
SICK HEADACHE.-This distressing
complaint can generally be relieved by
soaking the feet in warm water, in
which a spoonful of powdered mustard
has been stirred. Soak as long as pos
sible, or till the water gets cool; it
draws the blood from the head.
BEEF SoUr.-Boil the soup bone I'M
til the meat is quite tender, pour the
broth in kettle, then rub an egg into
dry flour and mix thoroughly until the
noodles are quite fine, then add them to
the broth slowly, stirring until all are
in boil Is minutes, season to taste.
Boston MEAT PIE.-Take cold roast
beef, or indeed roast meat of any kind,
slice it thin, cut rather small, and lay it
with gravy sufficiently sailed and pep
pered, in a meat pie dish. Over the
meat pour q couple of tomatoes and q
thick layer of mashed potatoes. Bake
slowly, and you have fine meat pie.
DELICIOUS TOASTED CHEESE Cut
the cheese into slices of moderate thick
ness, and put them in a timed copper
saucepan, with little butter and cream;
simmer very gently until quite dissolved,
then remove it from the fire, allow it to
cool little, and add some yelk of an
egg, well beaten; make it into shape
and brown it before the fire.
EGGS IN CASE OF TRoUBLE.-The
white of an egg is said to be a specific
for fsh-bones sticking in the throat. 1t
is to be swallowed raw and will carry
down q bone easily and certainly.
There is another fact touching eggs
which it will be well to remember.
When, as sometimes by accident, cor
rosive suhlimate is swallowed, the white
of or eggs taken will neutralize the
poison, and change the effect to that of
a dose of calomel.
OATMEAL Cause.-The quart of
cold water stir oatmeal enough to make
it about as thick as hasty pudding.
Be sure that the meal is sprinkled in
slowly and that the stirring is so active
that the mush will have no Jumps in it.
Now put it on the buttered pan, where
it can be spread out to half the thick
ness of q common cracker, and smooth
it down with case-knife. Run sharp
knife across it so as to divide it into the
sized pieces you wish, and then place it
in a warm oven, and bake slowly, be-
ing careful not to brown it.
To SERVE COLD ROAST BEEF.-Chop
the beef, fat and lean together, and
have ready an equal quantity of stewed
ripe tomatoes, then roll or 5
crackers and strew them in an earthern
puddingdish; now put in alternate
layers of tomatoes and beef until all is
in; season with salt, pepper and bits of
butter if the beef is not very fat; add
cold beef gravy, which will usually be
moisture enough, then put q layer of
cracker crumbs over the top and bake
in moderate oven until nicely Drowned
on top.
Ice CREAM CAKE.-Here is q recipe
for the popular ice-cream cake, that so
many people are asking for: 1 cup of
butter, cup sweet milk, 2 cups sugar,
81 cups flour, 2 teaspoons powder, and
whites of eggs beaten to stiff froth.
Bake this in layers. For the ice-cream,
8 cups of sugar in stew-pau, and add
cup of boiling water. Boil till it
threads. Then pour hot over the beaten
whites of eggs. Stir rapidly and keep
on stirring till cold. Then add tea
spoonful Of pulverized citric acid, dis
solved in little warm water. Flavor
with lemon or vanilla, and spread be.
tween each layer and on the top. The
reason there are SO many failures with
this cake is because the sugar is boiled
too much, or not enough. As soon as a
long silky thread follows the drop from
the spoon, it is ready to pour over the
beaten egg. If not boiled long enough
it will make q poor sort of custard, if
too long, it will be too stiff to spread
between the layers.
Personal Appearance of st.
Paul.