1 1/2 quarts corn meal

1 1/2 quarts pastry flour

2 quarts boiling water

8 tbspns. baking powder

1 cup corn syrup 3/4 cup shortening

2 tablespoons salt 6 eggs

3 cups raisins

Wash and dry the seeded raisins, and mix with a little of the measured flour. Scald meal with hot water; add salt, corn syrup, and shortening; cool, and add well-beaten yolks. Sift flour and baking powder together; combine mixtures, beat well, and add raisins. Fold in stiffly beaten whites. Bake forty-five minutes or more in rather hot oven. Five and one-fourth cups barley flour may be used in place of pastry flour.