cup sweet milk; one cup sour milk; one cup New Orleans molasses;
one-half teaspoonful salt; one teaspoonful soda; one cup corn meal; two
cups graham flour. Add a few raisins which greatly improve the flavor.
Put in a five-pound pail, set in cold water (one quart). From time it
commences to boil let cook for three hours.

MY MOTHER'S BROWN BREAD

Mrs. Grant Beebe

One cup molasses; one cup milk (sweet or sour); one cup of graham flour
and one cup corn meal, stiff; two cups raisins, two eggs; two even
teaspoonfuls soda; one tablespoonful brown sugar; one teaspoonful salt.
Bake one hour in moderate oven.

JOHNNY CAKE

Mary S. Vanzoll

One cup sweet milk; two eggs; one dessert spoonful of sugar; one-half
cup yellow corn meal; one-half cup flour to make like cake batter;
one-fourth cup melted butter; salt; heaping teaspoonful baking powder.

CORN CAKE

Mrs. J. L. Putnam

Scald one cup white corn meal with one pint of milk; while hot add one
tablespoonful of buttered bread crumbs, one of sugar and a little salt.
The yolks and whites of three eggs beaten separately. Pour into a well
buttered frying pan and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven.

CORN MEAL GEMS

Mrs. K. Larson

One-half cup corn meal; one cup flour; three teaspoonfuls baking powder;
one tablespoonful sugar; one tablespoonful melted butter; one-half
teaspoonful salt; three-fourths cup milk; one egg. Mix and sift dry
ingredients; add milk gradually and egg well beaten and melted butter.
Bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans for twenty-five minutes.

CORN GEMS

Josephine Hurlbut

Put two cups of corn meal into a bowl; pour over one cup of boiling
milk; add a tablespoonful butter; cover the bowl, allow the mixture to
stand until cool; add another cup of cold milk; the yolks of two eggs,
well beaten; one-half teaspoonful salt; half cupful flour, and two
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat thoroughly, then fold in the well
beaten whites of two eggs. Bake in gem pans in a moderately quick oven
thirty minutes.

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

Mrs. H. B. Rairden

Thirteen tablespoonfuls flour; one teaspoonful salt; four level
teaspoonfuls baking powder; one tablespoonful lard; mix together with
milk enough to make dough.

PARKER HOUSE ROLLS

Mrs. H. R. Foster

Scald one pint of milk; one yeast cake put in warm water; two
tablespoonfuls sugar; two tablespoonfuls butter; one teaspoonful salt;
three cups flour; mix. Raise until double; then ad