Scald two cupfuls of Indian meal with a quart of boiling milk and let it get lukewarm. Beat into it a tablespoonful of melted cottolene and one of molasses, a teaspoonful of salt, two well-beaten eggs, and when these ingredients are well mixed, thin to the consistency of buckwheat batter with more milk, added alternately with half a cupful of flour with which has been twice sifted a saltspoonful of soda, i.e., a quarter teaspoonful.