2 cups sugar - a pounds

1 cup butter - 1/2 pounds

5 or 6 eggs.

1 cup milk or water - 1/5 pint

4 teaspoons baking powder.

8 cups flour - 2 pounds.

Soften the butter and stir it and the sugar together, add eggs, milk, beat well. Mix the powder in the flour; mix all to a soft dough. Press it together on the table, roll out thin, sift granulated sugar all over and cut out the cakes. The softer the dough can be worked the better the cakes will be. Makes 9 dozen, cost 36 cents, 4 or 5 cents a dozen; or twice as many if rolled extremely thin.

[Breakfast]

July 10.

Cracked wheat mush (2 cups cracked wheat, 4 cents.)

Beefsteak (7 orders, 1 lb, -20 cents.)

Ham and breakfast bacon (6 orders, 15 cents.)

Buttered eggs (No. 558, 18 eggs and butter, 25 cents.)

German fried potatoes (No. 511, 20 potatoes, 6 cents.)

Corn muffins (No. 286, with 2 cups meal, etc., 20, 12 cents.)

Graham batter cakes (with sour milk, like No. 535, 2 qts, 15 cents.)

Syrup 12, butter 15, milk and cream 30, coffee, tea, sugar, bread 20.

Total, $1 74; 25 persons; 7 cents a plate.

Boarders and children are getting filled up. No longer ravenous and covetous of large portions. Just beginning to have misgivings as to the gentility of large cuts, heaped up dishes and six batter cakes on a plate; willing to have them made small and only three at a time. 'Tis ever thus after a week or two. Out of eggs again, as usual; must make up a dinner without. The big hotels at the depot catch up all that comes to that little country store. Our manager as busy is as a bee from morn till dewey eve playing croquet and has no time to go further to buy. But we are out of meat, too, and somebody must go to the "Glen," which is a few sizes larger than the depot village, and buy some.