About the easiest, quickest made and best batter cakes, are made with only four ingredients, viz: "clabber," or milt curdled by souring, flour, soda and salt.

Take a little sifted flour in a pan, add the "clabber" until it can be stirred to the proper consistency to bake on a griddle, then add a little salt and soda. There is no measure to give only that in a general way 2 cups of sour milk needs 1 teaspoon of soda.

When you make other flour batter cakes, syrup, eggs and shortening are needed - the syrup to make them brown easily - but these "clabber" cakes need nothing but what is named above.

This is the Fourth, the great excursion day. Flags are flying at the large hotels at the depot and at the Trulirural House. There is some danger that a few of the straggling excursionists may come to bur house to dinner and we are not prepared. Stores have not arrived; scarcely a thing in the house besides the meat and fish. So much uncertainty it is useless to prepare extra dishes or even ice cream, but it is well enough to make a little larger quantity of such plain things as we must have.

590 - Graham Cakes With Sour Milk-Cheapest

It is necessary to mix white flour with the Graham, about half of each. Otherwise they are made the same as the other kind, No. 535.