American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

| USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Excellent Bread Cake-One cup
butter, two cups brown sugar, one
half cup raisins stoned and chopped,
one and one-half cups dough as raised
for bread; mix thoroughly and let it
rise in the pans before baking. Spices
of all sorts
The farmer who puts all of the best
apples on the top of the barrel, half
dresses his chickens, puts stones in his
bundles of hay, will sooner or later be
compelled to sell to those who take all
the advantage they can in both buying
and selling.
Picked Cherries. pounds
of cherries, stoned-leave n few pits for
| tlavoring; one quart of vinegar, two
pounds of sugar, one-half ounce of Gin
namon, one-half ounce of cloves, one
half ounce of mace; boil the sugar, vim
egar and spices together grind the
spice and tie them in a muslin bag)
and pour hot over the cherries.
According to Mr.. Woodward, of
Lockport, N. Y, the solutions of arse
mic or Paris green for destroying the
codling-moth are made unnecessarily
strong. His experience has been tina t
a sufficiently strong solution is made by
mixing tablespoon of either poison in
a barrel of water.
-Raisn Pie.-Take one pound of
raisins; turn over them one quart OF
boiling water. Keep adding. SO there
will be one quart when done. Crate
the rind of one lemon into a cup of
sugar. then add three tablespoonful of
flour and one egg; mix well together.
Turn the raisins over the mixture,
stirring the while. This makes three
pies. Prunes may be used instead of
raisins, if preferred.
Cherry Pudding.-One quart of
scalded milk, not quite pint of Indian
meal, a scant half-pint of sjfted flour,
four well-beaten eggs, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, a teaspoonful of
salt and pint of whole, ripe cherries.
Let the milk stand after heating
until tepid; stir in the meal and flour,
reserving a tablespoonful to mix the
baking powder with; add the eggs and
salt, then the cherries and baking pow
der. Turn into pudding mold or bag
and steam two hours. Eat with sugar
and cream or butter sauce.
Egg Omelet.-The yelks must be
beaten until thick and creamy, then the
milk and seasoning added, and lastly
the whites beaten to stiff froth.
Have heated in skillet a tablespoon
full of butter. Pour in the mixture,
which should at once bubble and flake.
To keep from burning slip under
thin, broad knife and raise up the edges
every few seconds. When the eggs
begin to set. fold over, shake the skillet
and turn on to hot platter. When
many eggs are used, divide and make
several, sending each to table as soon
as done.
1t is a well-established fact that
single kind of food is not enough for
the best growth, health and comfort of
animals. Like ourselves, the stock
which we keep does relish change of
diet-thrives better with change of
pasture, so to speak-and gives fuller
returns for trouble of providing the
variety of foods. Coarse fodder should
be mixed with that which is of finer ma
ture, and the highly heterogeneous feed
with substances weak in nitrogen.
Some farmers will feed their sheep corn
one morning, and barley or oats the
next. and thus keep up continual sur
prise. heightened by lick of salt now
and then. 1t is the same love of change
which makes colt, COW, and even the
oldest horse, feel glad when turned into
a new field.
All cases OF shrinking OF the mus
Giles of the shoulders are not due to dis
ease in that part. but the great majority
are really caused by lameness in the
foot. If the trouble is in the shoulder
the wasting is likely to have occurred
very suddenly and become extreme, so
that one or two deep hollows exist the
whole length of the shoulder blade.
Yet there is likely to have been little or
no lameness. but when the horse is
walked up to you the shoulder joint on
the affected side will be seen to roll out
ward much more than the other. Rub
in the hollows the following sufficiently
often to keep up some heat and tender
ness: Powdered cantharides one-half
dram, aqua ammonia two drains, alcohol
ten drains. Further let the patient have
three or four hours walking exercise
daily on a smooth level road or on
smooth field in light cultivating or
other easy work: Uneven ground on
which he may inadvertently step into
hole will certainly injure, but daily ex-
ercise on smooth ground is essential to
success.