American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Fried Squash. A delicious dish can
he made of the summer crook necked
luash simply by frying them in butter
Slice them rs YOU would cucumbars. dip
i'll dry flour, fry to II brown, and ima9-
inc that you are eating fried oysters.
DO not sprinkle flowers and plants
frequently in a dry time, but give an
occasional thorough soaking. Make a
basin around them, pour in an abund-
ance of water. then draw back the dry
soil. No baking and the pets will not
know there is Il drought.
1t is an excellent way of serving up
onions, to chop them after they are
boiled. and put them in Il stewpan with
n little milk, butter. salt and pepper.
and let them stew about fifteen minutes.
This gives them a fine flavor, and they
can be served up very hot.
Prepare earth now for potting
flowers in the fall, if so long delayed.
Pieces of sods from an old pasture,
droppings, to rot. These, with some
road sand, are the requisites, and q
little woods dirt will do no harm.
To Harden Pickles-After they are
taken out of the brine take lump of
alum and horse radish cut in strips;
put this in the vinegar, and it will make
them hard and crisp. When you wish
to make few cucumber pickles quick,
take good cider vinegar; heat it boiling
hot and pour it over them. When cool,
they are ready for use.
To Remove Rusted Bolts-To re-
move bolts that have been rusted in,
without breaking them,- the most eff
fcctive remedy is the liberal application
of petroleum. 1t rarely fails to accom-
plish the work. Care must be taken
that the petroleum shall reach the rusty
parts. and some time must. be allowed
to give it n chance to penetrate beneath
and soften the layer of rust, before the
attempt to remove the bolt is made.
-Lampas is an inflammation and
swelling of the bars of the palate or the
upper part of the mouth. 1t is signiti-
cative of dsordered digestion and a
feverish condition. Give a dose of one
pint of linseed-oil and repeat in two
days. Then give dram of gentian-
root, powdered, in the food twice
day. The swollen parts may be scored
slightly with a sharp knife and rubbed
with powdered borax.-M Y. Times.
Tomato Soup.-Slice an onion and
fry to reddish brown in soup-pot in
two spoonfuls of beef drippings; then
add dozen good sized tomatoes peeled
and sliced, and when very hot put in
three pints of boiling water with
spoonful of chopped parsley. Boil half
an hour, then pass through sieve, rub
bing through the tomatoes, and return
to the pot. Season with pepper, salt,
two spoonfuls of butter rolled in flour
and, when boiling, stir in cupful of hot
boiled rice. Simmer ten minutes and
serve.
There is quite as much necessity
for barn cleaning on the farm as for
house cleaning, and if farmers were as
punctilious about the renovation ana
publication of the outbuildings as
farmerines are about the dwelling,
there would speedily be an improve
ment about the appearance of things,
and of convenience too. Lost or mis-
placed tools are brought to light, barn,
shed, shop and furnishings put in order,
space gained and revival of cheer
fulness everywhere.
Cream to use with any kind of layer
cake is made from this recipe: Take
one pound of blanched almonds pounded
to q paste, one coffee cup of thick sour
IL
scalded in n little sweet milk, beat all
together and spread between the layers
of cake; flavor with little almond ex-
tract. This is very rich, and is suita-
BILE for the incest kinds of cake For
more common use an inviting cream
may be made in this way: Take pint
of sweet milk, thicken it with half Il
cup of corn starch. add half cup OF
sugar. and boil until the cream or Gus
tard is OF the consistency of starch.
When almost cool add one tablespoon
full of lemon or vanilla and spread be-
tween the layers of cake.
The kinds of grass that are suitable
Tor permanent pasture are those which
spread from the roots, as timothy.
which increases by dubious offsets; red
OPP and creeping bent, which have run
ming roots, and the fescucs, which have
ibrous and spreading roots. The soil
has also considerable effect upon the !
of the grass, as moist clay
)r loamy soils are much more favorable |
% strong. vigorous growth than dry. |
light soils. Indeed, it would be vain
% expect TO make a permanent meadow |
lpon such a soil without constant re-
by fresh seed and dressings /
If manure. The varieties and quanti-
les per acre OF grass suited for mead |
'ws are as follows: Five pounds of |
imothy, five pounds redtop, three |
pounds creeping bent, five pounds
meadow fescue, three pounds tall fes-
'ue, five pounds crested dogs tail, three
pounds poa trivialis. On dry uplands
he addition of six pounds of red clover
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