American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-02-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
-Charring wood adds to its dura-

-Charring wood adds to its dura-
bility.
Roses need very rich soil to bring
them to perfection, thriving best in a
mixture of well-rotted manure, sand
and garden loan, and to stint them of
nourishment is indeed poor economy.
Whipped Potatoes Whip boiled
potatoes to creamy lightness with a
fork; beat in butter, milk, pepper and
salt; at last, the frothed white of an
egg; toss irregularly upon dish, set in
the oven two minutes to reheat, but do
not let it color.
Quaker Plum Pudding.-Slices of
bread, butter, raisins, five eggs, one
quart of milk, salt, spice. Take thin
slices of bread, butter them. and lay
them in the pudding dish with raisins
between each layer; when the dish is
nearly full, pour over it the milk and
eggs well mixed together, with little
salt and the spice. Bake it about half
an hour, and serve with a nice sweet
sauce.
Salt Pork and Apples.--Cut half a
pound of nicely-cured pork in slices a
quarter of an inch thick. fry them slow
ly until brown in a deep frying pan,
time wash, wipe and slice six sour
apples, and when the pork is taken up
put them into the frying-pan to cook
until they are tender, but not broken.
Lay them on the dish with the pork and
serve them hot.
Harmless Face Powders.
powder, though expensive, is warrant
ed perfectly harmless. Refined chalk
is the safest thing to use, and costs far
less than if put up under some other
name and sold in boxes. Cascarilla
powder is much used by Cuban ladies.
and is considered harmless. Wash the
face with thick suds from glycerine
soap, and, when dry, dust on the pow
der with puff or piece of chamois skin.
i had at one time a calf and several
sheep with broken legs. Every one
was repaired in this manner: Strips of
bagging were wound about the limb,
plastered, over, with calcined plaster
mixed to, a thin paste, and other strips
| wound over that and more plaster ap-
| piled; the leg was fastened to splints
of wood until the plaster set. The ami
NAL would limp about for a few days
on three legs. but all recovered without
blemish. Rural NeU Yorker.
Corn Flour Pudding One table,
spoonful of corn flour, one pint of milk,
an ounce and half of sugar, a little
grated nutmeg, and two eggs. You
mix the corn flour with a tablespoonful
| Of cold milk, put the rest of the milk TO
bon, and directly it comes to the boil
take the SAUCEPAN off the fire and put in
the rest of the cold ingredients, viz,
the mixed corn-tiour, the sugar. and the
yelks of the eggs. Put the whites OF
the eggs on another plate. and beat
| them up with little salt till they are a
creased q pie-dish. When the whites
are stiff enough you mix them with the
.corn-Hour, etc, in the basin, and then
put the whole mixture into the CREASED
pie dish. CRATE little nutmeg over the
pudding, and bake it for about twenty
minutes"
Bloody Wart.-If the wart be large
or so situated that strangling it off with
stout string cannot be readily done,
secure the colt in recumbent position,
and remove with a knife. Considera-
BILE bleeding often succeeds such re-
moval; but it may be stopped by ap-
plying hot iron to the end of the blood
vessels. When bleeding has ceased, ap.
| ply by means of wooden stick, shaped
like small knife blade, dipped into a
bottle of muriatic- acid, small portion
at a tine. The raw surface should be
touched all over, but care must be taken
not, to touch the surrounding healthy
! skin; wherefore it is best to anoint the
! same with some lard. After the appli-
cation of the acid, which should consist
4 in merely moistening the raw surface,
the animal should be tied so as to pre-
vent it from interfering with the teeth.
the application after three or four days,
with the same precautions as before.
and subsequently once weekly until the
surface assumes healthy aspect, by
degrees yet smaller, and finally heals
over.-Frairie Farmer.