Virginia Corn Cake

1 cup corn meal 1/2 cup flour.

2 tablespoons baking powder.

¾ teaspoon salt.

1 egg.

¼ cup sugar.

1/2 cup milk.

2 tablespoons melted butter.

Mix and sift corn meal, flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat egg and add sugar. Combine mixtures and add milk and butter. Turn into a buttered pan and bake in a hot oven twenty minutes.

Corn Meal Crisps

7/8 cup corn meal 1 cup boiling water.

2 1/2 tablespoons melted butter 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Add corn meal gradually to boiling water and when smooth add butter and salt. Spread evenly on a buttered inverted dripping pan to one-eighth inch in thickness, using a long broad-bladed knife. Bake in a moderate oven until well browned. Cut in two and one-half inch squares, remove from pan and serve at once.

Forest Hall Corn Sticks

1 cup corn meal.

¾ cup flour.

3 teaspoons baking powder.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/2 cup hot, boiled hominy 1/4 cup butter . 1 cup milk l egg.

Sift together corn meal, flour, baking powder, and salt; then add hominy, to which have been added butter, milk, and egg well beaten.. Turn into buttered bread stick pans and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes.

Southern Spoon Corn Bread

2 cups white corn meal 2½ cups boiling water 1½ tablespoons melted butter 1½ teaspoons salt.

Yolks 2 eggs 1½ cups buttermilk 1 teaspoon soda Whites 2 eggs.

Add corn meal gradually to boiling water and let stand until cool. Then add butter, salt, egg yolks, slightly beaten, and buttermilk mixed with soda. Beat two minutes and add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake in a hot oven forty minutes.

Littleton Spider Corn Cake

1 1/3 cups corn meal.

1/3 cup flour.

1 cup sour milk.

1 teaspoon soda [scant].

2 eggs.

2 cups sweet milk 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt.

1 ½ tablespoons butter.

Mix and sift corn meal and flour and add sour milk mixed with soda, eggs, well beaten, one-half the sweet milk, sugar, and salt. Heat an iron frying-pan, add butter, and, when melted, turn in mixture. Pour over remaining milk and bake in a hot oven. Cut in pie-shaped pieces for serving.

Southern Pone

1 pint milk.

1 cup granulated Indian meal.

1 teaspoon salt.

3 tablespoons butter.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

Scald milk and add gradually Indian meal, salt, and butter. Cool slightly and add eggs, well beaten, and baking powder. Turn into a buttered earthen dish and bake in a moderate oven thirty-five minutes. Cut in pie-shaped pieces for serving.

Rye Popovers

2/3 cup rye meal 1/3 cup flour ¼ teaspoon salt.

1 cup milk.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoon melted butter.

Mix and sift dry ingredients, add milk gradually, eggs, well beaten, and butter. Beat two minutes, using an egg beater. Turn into hissing hot buttered iron gem pans and bake in a hot oven from thirty-five to forty minutes.