Popovers

Mrs. Ellet Cabell

Beat 2 eggs very stiff and add 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of flour, and a pinch of salt. Have small tins very hot and well buttered. Fill half full with the mixture, bake in a quick oven 20 minutes and eat at once.

Rice Cakes

Cook 1 cup of rice, and add to it 1/2 cup of cream, 1 teaspoon baking-powder, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 eggs, well beaten. Fry in lard or butter just enough to grease skillet.

Rusk Or Sweet Bread

1 pint of flour,

1 pint of white sugar,

1 teacup of melted lard, l 1/2 pints of water,

2 kitchen spoons of yeast.

Make into a batter at night, set in a warm place to rise. The next morning work into this sponge

2 beaten eggs,

3 pints of flour.

Set in a warm place to rise again. When light, make into pretty shapes; let rise again, and when light, bake. Spread on the rolls when warm white of an egg and sifted cinnamon.

The dough should be as soft as you can make it to work well.