American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in
the gravy of either roasted or fried
Meats is an advantage.
I'm washing clothes sal soda should
be used with discretion. Two teaspoon
fuls of the crystals are sufficient for one
tub of water.
-Molasses Cake.-Two eggs, one
cup sugar, one cup molasSes, one-half
cup of butter, two teaspoons of sale
ratus, dissolved i'll one cup Of boiling
water, spice, three cups flour.
-Sick-headache can often be greatly
relieved, and sometimes entirely cured.
by the application of a mustard plaster
at the base of the neck. The plaster
should not be kept on more than a
quarter of an hour.
Dried Apple Cake.-Soak two cups
of dried apples over night. Chop fine
and boil in two cups of molasses until
soft. Drain off the molasses, add to it,
one cup of butter, two eggs. one cup of
sour milk, two teaspoons of saleratuis,
four cups Of flour. spices Of all kinds.
Add the apples last.
-Bsefsteak Pie.-Take cold roast
beef, cut it into thin slices about an
inch and half long. Take raw pota-
Toes. peel Jncfn anu cut Jncm 1nJO Jnln
slices. Have ready deep dish, lay
some of the potatoes at the bottom,
and then a layer of beef, and SO or till
the dish is filed. Season as you would
chicken pie, fill it with boiling water,
cover it with a crust and bake it.
Sanders, in the National Live-S Stock
Journal, says: Whenever any breed
attains to such a degree of popularity
hat al Of re nfat
regard to merit. are used for the pur-
poses of reproduction, that breed will
at once begin to deteriorate, because
there never was and never will be
breed Of domesticated animals in which
all of its members are well formed and
free from defects"
Cup Cake.-Sift three cups Of flotir
with three small teaspoonsful of baking
powder in d large dish; break three
eggs into a pan-beat WE'LL then add
one and half cups of granulated sugar,
half cup of soft butter; stir all till
light and creamy; then add one cupful
of milk; stir a few times; now gradually
add the flour; beat well; flavor with
lemon or almond; this will make two
cakes; throw a cupful of stoned raisins
into one.
-Tapioca and Tomatoes.-Soak a
tablespoonful of tapioca in water for a
couple of hours, set it to boil, adding a
little more water till quite done to the
consistency of porridge. Add pepper.
salt and little fresh butter. Cut two
tomatoes in half, remove pips and
watery substance, sprinkle with a little
pepper and salt. Fill each half-tomato
with the tapioca. sprinkle the top with
grated cheese and baked bread crumbs.
put them into the oven for twenty min
utes and serve.
I'm regard to "the proper time to
cut timber" the Farmers AdUocdte
prints the following from ian aged,
thoughtful, practical gentleman who
knows of what he speaks: The best
time for all purposes is in the months
of July and August. When the trees
are felled they should be allowed to re-
main until the leaves have fallen off.
These will draw all the sap out of the
wood, and then the tree should be cut
up, split, the bark taken of and drawn
out of the bush and piled in the sun, so
as to allow them to dry quickly. The
posts will also last longer if they are
set with the small end downward"
-Observant farmers and gardeners
have found that embanking potato
pfantS, or Mining tnem, as well as
some other hoed crops, decreases the
product; and in agricultural discussions
and in periodicals we frequently see the
loss ascribed to the falling rains being
turned away from the roots of the
plants, on the supposition that the roots
never extend more than a few inches
from the base of the stems. This mis-
taken notion is easily disproved by ex-
aiming the soil between the rows with
trowel, when the small branching
fibers will be found to meet between
the rows and extend over the whole
surface, even before the tubers have set
or grown to any size. The plants grow
best and give the largest tubers by
leaving the soil even and level, and not
by denuding the roots between the
hills, and piling the soil to an unnatural
depth against the plants.