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One pint of corn meal, two tablespoons melted butter, one teaspoon salt, two eggs, one tablespoon sugar, sour milk enough to make batter; saleratus (if you should get in a little two much it is easily remedied by adding a few drops of vinegar). OAT MEAL GRIDDLE CAKES. Mrs. J. M. Wetherell, Englewood, 111. One cup oat meal, one cup flour, one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt ; sift the baking powder in with the flour; add cold water to make a batter of the consistency of buckwheat cakes; beat very well together and bake immediately. This recipe is sufficient for a family of three. MUSH. Indian or oat meal mush is best made in the following manner : Put fresh water in a kettle over the fire to boil, and put in some salt ; when the water boils, stir in handful by handful corn or oat meal until thick enough for use. In order to have excellent mush, the meal should be allowed to cook well, and long as possible while thin, and before the final handful is added. When desired to be fried for breakfast, turn into an earthen dish and set away to cool. Then cut in slices when you wish to fry ; dip each piece in beaten eggs and fry on a hot griddle. OAT MEAL GRUEL. Take two tablespoons of oat meal, pour on it a pint of cold water; let it stand half a day, then pour it through a sieve and boil well one-quarter of an hour, stirring all the time ; season according to taste. The coarse meal to be rejected. Good for invalids or children. WEIGHTS AND MEASUEES. Ten eggs are equal to one pound. One pound of brown sugar, one pound of white sugar, powdered or loaf sugar broken, is equal to one quart. One pound of butter, when soft, is equal to one quart. One pound and two ounces Indian meal is equal to one quart. One pound and two ounces of wheat flour is equal to one quart. Four large tablespoons are equal to one-half gill. Eight large tablespoons are equal one gill. Sixteen large tablespoons are equal to one-half pint. A common sized wine glass holds half a gill. A common sized tumbler holds half a pint. Four ordinary teacups of liquid are equal to one quart. CAKES. But then my fare was all so light and delicate ; The Fruit, the Cakes, the Meats so dainty frail, They would not bear a bite — no, not a munch — But melted away like ice. — Hood. SUGGESTIONS. In making Cake, it is very desirable that the materials be of the finest quality. Sweet, fresh butter, eggs and good flour are the first essentials. The process of putting together is also quite an important feature, and where other methods are not given in this work by contributors, it would be well for the young housekeeper to observe the following directions : Never allow the butter to oil, but soften it by putting it in a moderately warm place before you commence other preparations for your cake : then put it into an earthen dish (tin, if not new, will discolor your cake as you stir it), and add your sugar ; beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add the yolks of the eggs, then the milk, and lastly the beaten whites of the eggs and flour Spices and liquors may be added after the yolks of the eggs are put in, and fruit should be put in with the flour. The oven should be pretty hot for small cakes, and (322)