4 cups milk - a quart.

1 heaped cup corn meal - 6 ounces.

Butter size of an egg - 2 ounces.

1 large cooking spoon molasses -

3 ounces.

4 eggs (8 yolks are better.)

1 small lemon.

Make mush of the milk and meal and set it at the back of the range, or on a brick and with a tight lid on keep cooking slowly for an hour or two. Then grate in the rind of lemon and squeeze in juice of half; add the black molasses, butter and eggs and bake in a 2 quart pan about 1/2 hour. It makes 3 pints. As only half the people, or probably less will order pudding or any other ordinary dish in a plentiful dinner this amount is enough for a dinner for 30. There are plenty of cooks even in very good hotels who can never make a satisfactory Indian pudding; it runs with them from a hard corn cake to a sort of brown gruel which nobody wants. The only remedy is to weigh or measure the ingredients and follow directions.