Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

1 tablespoonful melted butter. 1 tablespoonful sugar. Yolks of 2 eggs. White of 1 egg. IJ^ cup milk. Bake in brickloaf bread pan about half an hour. The Boston Cook Book, Spider Corn Cake (Sour Milk). {Miss Parloa.) % cup corn meal. Flour to fill the cup. 1 tablespoonful sugar. teaspoonful salt. teaspoonful soda, scant. 1 egg. 1 cup sweet milk. ^ cup sour milk. 1 tablespoonful butter. Mix the meal, flour, sugar, salt, and soda. Beat the egg ; add half of the sweet milk, and all the sour milk. Stir this into the dry mixture. Melt the butter in a hot spider, or shallow round pan, and pour the mixture into it. Pour the other half cup of sweet milk over the top, but do not stir it in. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. Corn and Rice Muffins. 1 pint white corn meal. 1 teaspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful flour. 1 cup cold boiled rice. 1 teaspoonful soda, scant. 1 pint sour milk. 1 egg. 1 tablespoonful melted butter, or drippings. Bake in muffin pans about twenty minutes. Hominy and Corn Meal Cakes. (Mrs. S. S. Ropes.) Mix two tablespoonfuls of fine, uncooked hominy, half a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of butter, half a cup of boiling water. Place this over the teakettle, or on the back of the stove until the hominy absorbs all the water. Pour one cup of boiling milk on one scant cup of corn meal; add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and the hominy. When cooled, add two eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, and one heaping teaspoonful of baking-powder. Bake in hot, buttered gem pans twent}' minutes. Maryland Com Cakes (without Soda). {Mrs. Upham.) Mix one cup of fine white sifted meal^ one even tablespoonful of butter^ one teaspoonful of sugar one saltspoonful The Boston Cook Book. of salt. Add one scant cup of boiling milk. When cooled, add one egg^ yolk and white beaten separately. Bake in stone cups about thirty minutes. Dodgers, Dabs, or Corn Meal Puffs (without Soda). {Alice Walcott.) Two cups of fine white corn meal^ scalded with boiling water so that the meal is all wet but not soft ; add one teaspoonful of butter^ one teaspoonful of sugar^ half a teaspoonful of salt^ two or three tablespoonfuls of milk; when cold, add two eggs., yolks and whites beaten separately. The batter should drop easily from the spoon, not be thin enough to pour, nor stiff enough to be scraped out. Have your pans greased and hissing hot, and the oven as hot as possible. Bake until brown and puffy. Indian Bannock (without Soda). {A. W,) 1 cup corn meal. 1 teaspoonful sugar. 1 teaspoonful salt. 1 pint boiling milk. When cool, add two eggs^ beaten separately. Bake in a shallow earthen dish in a very hot oven, and serve in the dish, like a pudding. Hoe Cake (without Soda). Boiling milk or water enough to scald it. 1 cup white corn meal. 3^ teaspoonful salt. 1 teaspoonful sugar (if you like).