American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-14
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Old wall paper may be very much
improved by rubbing it well with a flan-
mel cloth dipped in oatmeal.
Honey Lemon Cake.-One cup of
butter. two cups of honey, four eggs
we'll beaten, teaspoonful of essence of
lemon, half cup of sour milk, teaspoon
full of soda, flour enough to make it as
stiff as can well be stirred; bake at once
III n quick oven.
1t is said that new ground soil mixed
Eith the manure for the melon patch
will prevent rust and brown patches
on the melons and keep the vines green
longer than usual Experienced grow
ers have discovered that melons and
vines do not rust on new land as they
do on old, even in seasons of extreme
wet.
Dat meal is q very nice dish pre-
pared the following way: Put piece
of butter the size of Il hickory nut and
teaspoonful of salt in three pints of
boiling water, then add one half pint of
oat meal For ten minutes let it boil
fast. stirring frequently; then place it
over saucepan of boiling water to con-
tinue cooking slowly for about half an
hour. When over the water it will
only need stirring occasionally.
Floating Island.-Make a boiled
custard of the yelks of six eggs, large
quart of milk, sugar to sweeten and
pinch~o salt. The yelks must be well
beaten and strained before adding to
the milk. Flavor the custard, and while
boiling hot pour into dish and spread
the whipped whites smoothly over the
top. Cover tightly to cook the whites.
When cold, silt powdered sugar over
the top. and you may if you wish strew
over grated cocoa-nut, or bits of jelly
or jam. Very nice.
-Whitewash for Out-Houses and
Fences.-The ingredients are unslacked
lime, white vitriol and salt. The pro-
portions are one bushel of lime (Which
must be Stacked with hot water), two
four pounds of salt. This colors white.
If you prefer a drab color, add half
pound of French blue and two pounds
of Indian red. The advantage of this
recipe is its cheapness and durability.
The whole cost of giving two coats of
paint that will wear like iron. to seven
thousand square feet of wall or plank,
is one dollar and ten cents.
For fowls affected with chicken
cholera feed cooked corn meal or oats,
into which mix little fine red pepper;
also feed vegetables, especially onions
chopped up fine, and in severe cases
give one drop of laudanum in a tea
spoonful of water twice daily. In the
water given the fowls to drink dissolve
one ounce of BIZ sulphate of soda in a
gallon of water. Remove all sick fowls
from the flock, and keep them in a
warm dry room. Good care and very
little medicine will usually cure this dis
ease in few days.
Rice Croquettes.--Soak half .
pound of rice three or four hours in
water; drain, and put into a basin with
one quart of milk and a little salt. Set
the basin in steamer and cook until
done. Then stir in careful
ly one teacupful of sugar. the yelks of
two eggs previously beaten, a very little
butter, and favor with lemon or vanilla.
When cool enough to handle, form into
small balls; press the thumb into the |
center of each; insert a little MARINA
Iade or Jelly of any kind, and close the |
egg and bread crumbs and fry in boil
ing hot lard.
-Hasty Tomato Soup.-Simple but
excellent. One large can of tomatoes
and one pint or water brought to the
sieve. Return to the fire, add half
of soda and stir till it stops
Season with one even tea
spoonful of salt, two of sugar, one salt
spoonful of cayenne. Thicker with two
heaping tabiespoonfuls of flour and one
If butter. rubbed 10 a cream with hot
soup added till it pours easily. Boil a
pint of milk separately, and. when
'eady to use, pour into the boiling to-
nato and serve at once, as standing
ong makes the milk liable to curdle.
Bad horses are more frequently
made than born. 1t is very much in
he bringing up-in the way the colt is
Jared for and the manner in which it is
broken. Firmness with kindness go
yery far in making valuable horse.
The colt should early learn that it is
lever to be deceived; that it is to be
and rewarded when obe-
iient, and punished BY the withholding
If caresses when disobedient. The
anne natural qualities that make a
lorse vicious will, with proper treat
nent, make one of those intelligent
md spirited horses that all desire to
possess. The true trainer of colts is
,entle, loving, firm and thoughtful; and
he young animals under his charge
,artake much of the same qualities