American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Strong brine NAV be usedto advar
tage Ill washing bedsieads; hot alum is
also good for this purpose.
Pure Sirup. Boil equa parts of
white and dark brown sugar together.
Time about twenty minutes.
Some Massachusetts farmers, who
have used London purple for potato
beetle destruction, think it superior to
Paris green.
Tea should never be boiled because
boiling extracts its fannie acid, thus
making 4 both bitter and unwholesome;
but the wNer with which it IS made
should alwaysSs boiling hot not water
which has been boiling for n long
time and sending off smme of ia valua-
BILE elements in the steam, but fresh wa
ter brought to the boiling point and
used at once.
"A correspondent of the New York
World says: - have packed eggs in
summer that have kept well until the
Christmas following My plan is to dip
each one into pork lard AMI rub the
grease into the shell with the fingers
After this preparation | pack them in
a butter firkin or similar wooden vessel,
small ends down. This recipe works
well when the package does not have to
be moved"
Cream Soup.-Take quart of
good mutton or veal stock, cut an
onion in quarters, slice three potatoes
very thin and put them into the stock,
with small piece OF mace; boil gently
for an hour, then strain. The potatoes
should by this time have dissolved.
Add pint of rich milk-half milk, half
cream-with enough corn starch in it
20 make the soup almost rs thick as
cream. Add also piece of nice fresh
butter, and just before serving a little
finely chopped parsley.
-Rhubarb Jelly.-Take some rhu-
barb, wipe it with a clean wet cloth,
peel it, and cut it into pieces an inch
long. To each pound OF rhnbarb add
of pound of white
sugar. Put it to boil for about ten
minutes. or until the juice is well drawn.
Strain it into a preserving pan, let it boil
quickly till it clings to the spoon, skim
it and put it into jam pots or molds.
The quickest way to know if it will set
is to drop a little on a plate to cool.
Nice Fried Liver.-Cut into small
strips, put on a platter, pour over boiling
water and Immediately pour it off.
Place frying pan on the stove with
some beet dripping in it, dredge the
liver with cracker dust, season with
pepper and salt and put into the pan.
Cover and fry slowly until the pieces
are well Drowned. A little chopped
onion cooked with the liver is very nice
for those who like the flavor.
The best material for cleaning coat
collars and grease spots of all kinds is
pure benzine. The article is sold at the
principal drug stores in cities. That
used by painters is not pure enough,
and has very unpleasant odor, which
the pure article has not, and the little
which it has soon disappears. If this
cannot be obtained strong alcohol
(ninety-hve per cent? will clean collars
very well. A mixture of equal parts OF
strong alcohol and water of ammoni I,
is also used. The trouble with all these
liquids is that not enough is used; a
small quantity only softens and spreads
the grease spot; they should be applied
in sufficient quantity and repeated, to
not only dissolve the foreign matter, but
to wash it out.
Lemonade is one of the best and
safest drinks for person, whether in
health or not. 1t is suitable to all
stomach diseases; is excellent in sick
ness. The pips, crushed. may al>o be
mixed with water and used as a drink.
We advise every one to rub the gums
daily with lemon juice to keep them in
health. The hands and nails are also
kept clean, white, soft and supple by
the use OF lemon instead of soap. 1t
also prevents chilblains. Lemon is
used in intermittent fevers, mixed with
hot, black coffee without sugar
may be cured by rubbing the
parts Affected with 4 cut lemon. 1t is
valuable also to cure warts and to de
strov dandruff on the head by rubbing
the roots of the hair with it.
-Raisin Delicate Cake.-Two cups
of granulated sugar. good half cup OF
butter, whites of six eggs beaten to a
froth, three-fourths of cup of sweet
milk. three cups of flour, one cup of
seeded raisins, cut fine. two teaspoon
fuls of yeast powder and two teaspoon
fuls of lemon extract. Cream the but
ter, then the sugar and butter; stir in
the milk. then part of the fiour-one
cupful should be reserved for the rails
the whites, and, lastly, fruit.
After adding the flour whisk in the
whites and fruit as quickly as consistent
.:,l IL.