American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

| 10 make PANT dry quickly use q
large proportion of Japan varnish in
mixing for use.
Boiled cabbage and potato skins are
highly relished by laying hens.
Tea Cake.-Two thirds cup sugar,
butter size of walnut, the yelk OF one
egg, one half teacupful sweet milk. one
half tcaspoonful baking powder, one
cup sifted flour; use the white for frost
ing for the top.
Frying Chickens. persons
prefer chickens fried to any other way.
Dissect, salt and pepper, roll the pieces
in flour and fry in lard. When done
pour of the lard and put in quarter
of pound of butter, teacup of cream.
a little flour and some parsley scaldcd
and chopped fine for the sauce.
| -Buttcrmiik Pie.-Beat together a
heaping cupful of sugar and four eggs;
add half a cupful of butter; beat thor
| Oughly, and add one and a half pints
| OF fresh country buttermilk. Line the
pie tins with crust; slice an apple thin,
| and lay in each pie; fill the crust with
! the mixture, and bake with no upper
crust.
"A single sowing or planting of
| many vegetables is not enough: of those
that remain in proper condition but
short time there should be succession,
following the earliest sowings at inter-
walls. that there may be continuous
supply of peas, spinach, radishes, let
tuce, etc. Upon these succession crops
much of the utility of tho garden de-
ponds.
-Prune Pudding. cups of
-four, one cup each of milk, molasses
and chopped suet. One teaspoonful
each of soda, salt, ground cloves and
cinnamon. One-half pound of dried
currants well washed, and one half
pound of prunes previously soaked for
few hours. Tie loosely in a Toured
bag, and boil for two hours. Eat with
rich sauce.
There is no better green fodder for
sheep than oats and millet mixed, at
the rate Of three bushels of oats and n
peck of millet per acre. If desired
for winter feeding, the crop may be
cut when the seed is in the milk and
cured precisely as hay, but not exposed
to much sun, and cured mostly in
cocks or small stacks of not more than
three hundred pounds in each.
Lemon Pie.-Line common sized
pie plate with crust, rubbing it as full
of flour as you can. Take one large
lemon, CRATE off the yellow part and
squeeze the juice into the middle of the
pie; place the pulp around the edge,
cup of white sugar, one-half cup of cold
water, sprinkle in some of the grated
rind, and cover with crust.
Cracking nuts, biting thread. eating
hot food, especially bread and pastry |
raised with soda, very cold drinks, al
ternate contact with cold and hot SUBJ
stances, highly seasoned food, alcoholic
liquors., tobacco, metal toothpicks, and
want of cleanliness are injurious to
teeth. After eating, the mouth should
be rinsed with lukewarm water, and
such pieces of food as are not thus
washed away removed by q quill tooth
pick. Toothbrushes should be elastic
and moderately hard. Those with
hairs not too close together are best
and most durable. A brush that is too
hard may be permanently softened by
dipping in hot water. Rub up and
down as well as across the teeth. Teeth
should be often examined by compc-
tent dentist.
-Mulching Fruit-Trees. CORE
spondent of the american CutiratOr
gives remarkable instance of the ben
efits of mulching. He says upon dry
and rocky hillside in the town of
stood an orchard. The
trees were old and had not given a good
crop of apples for several years. The
owner, having large quantity of
spoiled hay, drew il from the field and
placed it around the trees to the depth of
twelve inches. covering the whole
ground occupied by the trees, emitting
every alternate row. This was done in
the month of July. The next year
every tree where the mulch was applied
was loaded with large and fair apples,
while the trees had made a great growth
Of wood, and the leaves had a beautiful
green and spring-like appearance, while
hose without the mulch bore no fruit
1t all.
White Sauce.-This is one of those
Kings we rarely find perfectly made;
bad, it is the ne plus ultra of badness;
good, it is delicious. Those who have
.ried to have it good and failed l beg to
nv the following method of making it:
Take an ounce and half of butter and
\ scant tablespoonful of flour; mix both I
With spoon into a paste; when smooth
.dd half pint warm milk, n small tea
,poonful of salt, and the sixth part of
,ne of white pepper; set it on the fire
Until it boils and is thick enough to mask
he back of the spoon transparently;
hen add a squeeze of lemon juice, and
mother ounce and half of fresh but
er; stir this till quite blended. This
auce is the foundation for many others,
md, for some purposes the beaten yelk
# an egg is introduced when just ON
he boil. Capers may be added to it,
IT chopped mushrooms, or chopped eel
Try. or oysters, according to the use for
Which it is intended. The object OF
ldding the second butter is because
polling takes away the flavor OF butter;
" stirring half of it in without boiling
'ou retain it.