2 cupfuls sour milk (or butter-milk). 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls Hour. 1 egg beaten light.

1 teaspoonful soda dissolved. 1 teaspoonful salt. Corn meal to make a thick batter.

Be sure not to put in too much corn meal. Only experience will teach how much to use. Bake in a shallow loaf about twenty minutes in a hot oven.

What is left should be dried in the heater, then rolled fine, and used for "Slapjacks" or "Corn Meal Pudding," or for frying fish.

Cream Corn Bread

1 pint corn meal. 1 teaspoonful salt.

l pint cream.

l egg, beaten light 1 cup (nearly) Hour.

Boil the corn meal as for "Hasty Pudding" fully five minutes. Leave it to get quite cold. Then add the other ingredients, omitting the egg if you choose. Mix well together, pour into a hot pan, and bake about half an hour in a quick oven.

Rich Corn Bread

1 quart corn meal.

2tablespoonfuls flour.

3 teaspoonfuls baking-pow-1 tablespoonful sugar.

1 pint milk or water.

3 eggs (beaten light).

1 scant cup butter (melted).

Mix all the dry ingredients together first, taking care to have the baking-powder well incorporated with the rest. Add the other things in order. Pour into hot pans, and bake in a hot oven for about thirty-five minutes.

Rice Corn Bread. (An old Virginia Receipt.)

1 pint boiled rice.

1 quart skim milk (very hot).

2 teaspoonfuls salt.

1 table spoonful melted lard.

2 or 3 eggs (beaten separately). Corn meal for a medium batter. 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.

Pour the milk over the rice. When cool, add the other ingredients, using the fine white meal. Scatter in the baking-powder dry at the last. Bake three quarters of an hour in an earthen dish in a moderate oven; or a shorter time, in muffin-rings, in a hot oven.

Makes two dozen muffins, or two medium-sized loaves.

Corn Bread (Other Ways)

See "Corn Meal Muffins." The receipts there given may be baked in loaves.

St. Charles Pone;

1 pint fine white Indian meal. 1 pint milk (sweet or sour). 2 eggs beaten light.

1 teaspoonful butter (melted).

1/2 teaspoonful salt.

1/2 teaspoonful soda (dissolved).

Mix and beat well, adding one teaspoonful of cream of tartar if the milk is sweet. Bake nearly half an hour in a quick oven. Makes a small loaf. (One egg will do.)