American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-03
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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! Potato PUFFs-To each two ctpfuls
of mashed POTATOES, take ohe table
spoonful cf melted butter and bent to a
cYealh; put with this two eggs, whipped
light, and crpfSli of ihilk-snlhng to
TASTE; beat AZ well; pour into creased
baking dish and bake quickly to a light
brown. Serve in the dish in whi''h !.
was cooked:
CREAM ONIoNs-Boil in two waters,
drain, and Gf they are large) cut into
quarters and pour over thew cMp of
scal.iing Milk-ih which pinch of sofia
has been stirred; set Sver the fire, add
a Tablespoonful of butter, half teaspoon
full corn starch wet with milk, a little
minced parsley, with Pepper and salt.
! S;..,....icir and pour out.
CHICKEN CREAM SOUP.-Boil an old
fowl, with an onion, in four quarts of
cold water, until there remain hut two
quarts. Take it eu5 and let it get cold
Cut off the white of the breast and
chop very fine. Mix with the pounded
vclks of two hard boiled eggs; anti rub
through 4 cnlandcr. Cool, skim and
strain the soup into soup-pot. Sea-
son; add the chicken and egg mixture;
simmer ten minutes, and pour into the
tureen. Then add small cup of boil
ing milk,
CRANBERRY SAUCE.-Wash and pick
over the cranberries; put on to cook in
tin or porcelain vessel, allowing a tea
cupful of water to each quart. Stew
slowly, stirring often until they are thick
as marmalade Take from the fire in
little over an hour, if they have cooked
steadily; sweeten plentifully with white
sugar and strain through Il coarse net
into mold wet with cold water. Do
this the day before using and at dinner
time turn from the mold iato glass
dish.
BoiLED SALMoN-The middle slice
of salmon is the best. Sew tip neatly in
n,osquito-net bag. and boil quarter
of an hour to the pound in hot sailed
water. When done unwrap with care,
and lay upon a hot dish, taking care not
to break it. Have ready a large cupful
of drawn butter, very rich, in which has
been stirred tablespoonful of minced
parsley and the juice of a lemon. Pour
half upon the salmon, and serve the
rest in a boat. Garnish with parsley
and sliced eggs.
: AN address delivered before the Inter
national Dairy Fair Association by MIR.
: Thurber, the President, contained some
statistics that show how important a
part milk and its products play in the
food of the people. America contains
$4,000, 900 mich cows; Germany, g.
900, 600; France, 100000; Great Brit
: ain and Ireland, 100000; and Swift
zerland, COO, 900. In 1878 there were
J manufactured in this country 96O, O0O,-
900 pounds of butter and 100000, 0O0
pounds of cheese Abont 4 per cent. OF
the former and over 40 of the latter was
sold for export.
Hor StAw One small, firm head of
cabbage shred fine, one cup of vinegar,
one tablespoonful of butter, one table
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonful of
sour cream, one-half teaspoonful of
made mustard, one saltspoonful of pep
per and the same of salt. Put the vine
gar and all the other ingredients for the
dressing, except the cream, in sauce
pan, and heat to boil; pour scalding
hot over the cabbage; return to the
saucepan, and stir and toss until all is
smoking again; take from the fire, stir
in the cream, turn into a covered dish
and set in hot water ten minutes before
you send to the table.
MINCE PIE.-H is supposed you have
your meat ready for the paste. Make
the paste by rubbing into a quart of
your best flour one-third of a pound of
sweet lard; chop it in with a broad
knife, if you have time; wet up with
ice-water; roll out very thin and cover
with dabs of Butter, also of the best
fold into a tight roll; fatten with few
strokes of the rolling-pin, and roll out in
to sheet as thin as the first basic again
with the butter; roll up and out into a
third sheet hardly thicker than drawing
paper; a third time dot with butter and
fold up closely. Having used as much
butter for this purpose as you have lard,
set aside your roll for an hour on ice, or
in very cold place; then roll out, line
your pie-plates with the paste, fill with
mince-meat, put strips across them in
squares or triangles and bake in a steady
and not dull heat.
MINCE MEAT.-f you have not the
meat ready, this is very nice way OF
making it; make as long as possible be-
fore using it, and keep in a stone jar
with a tight cover, and bladder tied
over the top: Take two pounds lean
fresh beef, boiled, and when cold chop
fine; one pound beef suet powdered /;
five pounds of apples, Jared, cored and
chopped; two pounds of raisins, seeded
, and chopped; one pound of Sultana
raisins, washed and picked over; two
pounds of currants, washed and care
fully picked over; three-quarters of a
pound of citron, cut up fine; two table
spoonfuls of cinnamon; one powdered
nutmeg; two tablespoonful of mace
one tablespoonful of cloves, and the
same each of allspice and fine salt; two
and a half pounds of brown sugar; one
quart of boiled cider, and one pint OF
picked blackberries. Bake the pies one
day before using, and then warm them
! slightly before serving.
Strange Fatalities.
1t has been automatically proved
that the railroad car is not the unsafest