Separate two eggs, beat the yolks and add one cupful (a half pint) of milk; add a half teaspoonful of salt and one and three quarters cupfuls of flour. Beat thoroughly, add two rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder, beat again, fold in the well-beaten whites of the eggs, and bake in twelve greased gem pans, in a quick oven, twenty minutes.

This recipe will answer for whole wheat or rye meal gems.

Rice Gems

Add a cupful of left-over cold boiled rice to the preceding recipe.

Oatmeal Gems

Add one cupful of left-over oatmeal breakfast mush to the recipe for gems.

Fruit Gems

Add a half cupful of chopped dates, figs or raisins to the recipe for gems just before folding in the whites of the eggs. Whole wheat flour is preferable to white flour for fruit gems.