1 pound corn meal.

2 quarts water.

Make mush of them, set at back of stove or on a brick and let cook with a lid on a long time. Then add:

1/2 cup butter or fine minced suet.

1 small cup molasses - the black sort.

4 eggs.

1 teaspoon ground ginger.

Stir up and bake. Serve with any pudding sauce or sugar dip or cream.

Costs 16 cents for nearly three quarts.

Supper For Forty.

August 9.

Oatmeal mush (2 heaped cups 1 lb, makes 2 qts, 5 cents.)

Beefsteak (21 orders, 10 tenderloins 11 common, 3 lbs, 45 cents.)

Broiled ham (6 orders, 12 ounces net 15 cents.)

Cold meats (for chidren, 6 orders charged dinner.)

Welsh rarebit (19 orders 11/4 lbs cheese etc. 22 cents.)

Broiled smoked salmon (8 orders, 12 ounces, 12 cents.)

Potatoes new baked (10 cents.)

French rolls (30 rolls 12 cents.)

Corn muffins (No. 286; 18 deep with 2 cups meal, 1 flour, 3 eggs; 13 cents.)

Canned grapes in syrup (2 cans 50 cents.)

Cakes assorted (2 lbs 20 cents.)

Milk 2 1/2 gal 30, cream 3 pts 30, coffee 1/3 lb 10, butter 1 1/4 lbs 25, tea 4, sugar 1 1/4 lbs 10, bread 3 (112 cents.)

Total $3 16; 40 persons, nearly 8 cents a plate.