American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

| Plants and trees which are not per-
| fectlv hardy will endure severe winters
| better if the subsoil has good drainage.
Sugar Cookies. Two cups of su-
| gar, one cup of butter, half Il cup of
| sweet milk, one teaSpoOnful of soda,
two teaspoonfuls of extract of lemon;
dip the cookies in sugar before baking.
Corn Bread Rusks. cupfuls of
corn meal, four OF wheat flour, two ia
| blespOonfuls molasses, one teaspoonful
| salt; mix well together, knead into
| dough; make two cakes of it; put into
well buttered tins or iron pans, and
| bake an hour.
Black knot is caused by fungus
which grows in the bark and causes it
| to decay. The only remedy is to
| strengthen the tree by means of wood
ashes and lime to overcome the disease
and make new growth, and to cut out
and burn the knotted limbs. Cherries
are also affected by it more frequently
than plums.
Drop cakes are made in this way:
| One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar.
one cup of lard, one teaspoonful of gin
ger and one each of cloves and of Gin
namon, two teaspoonfuls of soda, dis
solved in a cup of warm water; stir in
flour enough to make "A batter that will
drop readily from n spoon; adj little
salt and a cup of dried currants, or if
you have not these, well-washed En-
glish currants are nice.
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives her method of washing
silk handkerchiefs SO that they will look
almost as well as new ones: PUT an
iron on to get hot. and, when ready to
use, wash the handkerchiefs through
Srrd
much soilcd pass them through sec
ond suds. DO not rub the soap directly
on the handkerchief. Then pass
through another warm water without
soap, and thoroughly rinse, squeeze
dry and iron Immediately to prevent
the colors from running"
MIR. w. d. Philbrick, of Massachu-
sets, does not regard the crow as en-
titled to the least consideration as a
destroyer Of insects. He is, Mr.. Phil
brick says, merciless robber of birds
nests. eating indiscriminately eggs and
young birds in the breeding season. and
he thinks it arrant nonsense to defend
the crow as useful to the farmer. The
song birds, frogs and toads he destroys
would, if suffered to live. probably
destroy twice as many insects as the
crow himself.
The pear blight is now said to be
the effect of microscopic organism
that. when sufficiently numerous,
causes a fermentation in the pores of
the wood by devouring the starch in
the grain or fiber. This disease can be
easily communicated from one tree to
another by transferring even a minute
fragment of the bark from diseased
to a healthy tree, and therefore may
probably often be communicated by
accident. Cutting down and burning
the affected trees is the only sure cure.
The secret of an Omelet is the
knowing how. Bordeaux fashion is to
tilt the pan, allow the eggs to run TO
the lower side and scrape down from
the upper half of the Fan perfectly
clean, pushing all the egg to the lower
half When set, turn over backward,
brown and serve. Take hold of the
pan with the palm of the hand upper
most, place your dish over the pan and
turn quickly. If you do not put a table,
spoonful of water to each egg in max
ing an omelet it will be leaihery. If
you put milk or -four it is not an omelet,
but pancake.
DIR. Lcidy, of Philadelphia, in re-
cent number of the Pennsylvania Month";
ty, states that the parasite in pork
known rs trichine was first discovered |
by an English surgeon in 1888. but its
presence in pork was first detected by |
DIR. Leidy himself in 1910. He reminds |
the public that all food animals are liza |
BILE to have parasites. and that the tape |
worm is sometimes conveyed in rare /
beef; that only one hog in about 10, 900 |
is infected with trichine; and that thor
ough cooking will kill all such parasites,
while none of them are poisonous after
a good cooking. He believes that the
Mosaic prohibition of pork was due to
the danger of trichinosis in a country
where fuel was scanty, and therefore
their food seldom well cooked. He also
thinks that millions may have died Of
trichinosis in centuries before the source
of the danger was discovered, and that |,
many of the deaths which occurred in I
the army during our civil war were due
to the frequent use of raw and badly /
cooked pork, although ascribed to ty-
phoid, rheumatic or malarial fevers.