Hominy Grits - Cream And Sugar

Potato Puffs Hot Biscuits

Coffee

Hominy Grits

To 1 quart of boiling salted water, add slowly 1 c (scant) hominy grits. Boil up well, stirring all the time, then cook slowly in the double boiler for 3 or 4 h, adding more water from time to time if necessary, or cook in a tireless cooker over night.

Potato Puffs

Beat 2 eggs light, add 1 c cold mashed potatoes, 1/2 c flousifted with 1/2 t salt and 1 t baking-powder. Cut from the tip of a spoon into deep hot fat in pieces the size of an egg. Fry until a golden brown in color.

Biscuits

See pp. 24, or 78 - 2 c flour, 4 t baking-powder, 1/2 t salt, 1 T shortening, about 3/4 c milk.

Preparing The Meal

Reheat the cereal and make the biscuits. While baking make the coffee and the potato puffs, having the fat for frying the latter, heating at the same time. Fry the puffs and drain on brown paper, keeping them hot while the cereal is served. Serve the Potato Puffs, biscuits and coffee.