5 great spoonfuls Indian meal.

3 great spoonfuls wheat flour.

5 eggs, well-beaten - whites and yolks separately.

1 table-spoonful white sugar.

1 small teacupful melted butter.

1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.

2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, sifted into the flour.

1 pint milk, or enough to make batter about the consistency of pound-cake.

Melt, but do not heat the butter; add to the milk and beaten yolks; next, the soda; then, the meal, alternately with the whites; then, the sugar, lastly the flour, through which the cream tartar has been sifted,stirring it lightly and swiftly. Bake in a broad, shallow pan, in a tolerably brisk oven, - or, if you prefer, in muffin-rings.