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Raised Biscuit, I. — Make a sponge of a pint of milk and half an yeast cake. When light, add a heaping teaspoon of butter, half a cup of sugar, half a teaspoon of soda, and salt. Mrs. A. H. Ackerman. Raised Biscuit, II. — One cup of milk warm in a pan half an hour. Bake twenty minutes enough to melt one cup of lard, one cup of fine mashed potatoes, one quart of flour, half an yeast cake, and a little salt. Let it rise over night ; in the morning stir in enough flour to make a soft dough : let it rise, make into biscuit, and let them rise again a little before baking. ,' Mrs. A. M Sproull. \ Graham Biscuit. — Three cups of Graham flour, two cups of wheat flour, half a cup of lard, three teaspoons of baking powder, one cup of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt. Mix lightly and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. Peter Doremus. Fried Biscuit. — Work a piece of butter the size of an egg into a large pint of light bread dough; when it has risen again, roll it very thin, cut into circles or squares, and fry for breakfast. * * * Breakfast Rolls. — One pint of milk, one teaspoon of salt, flour to make a stiff batter, half a compressed yeast cake ; set it to rise over night. In the morning add half a cup of butter, one egg, and flour to make a stiff dough. Let it rise again ; when it gets very light, shape into rolls, and set them to rise ; Buns, I. — Half of a compressed yeast cake, one I pint of milk, three eggs, quarter of a pound of but- |ter, quarter of a pound of sugar. Mix soft. When I light bake in a quick oven. Miss H. M. Buns, II. — One cup of milk, one cup of sugar, four teaspoons of butter, four teaspoons of yeast, I half a cup of currants; make a batter at night of the !milk, yeast, and one half of the sugar; in the morn- I ing add the remainder of the sugar, butter, fruit, ' and flour to mould ; cut and put in pans to rise, be- ; fore baking. Mrs. J. Duckworth. BREAD, BISCUIT, ETC. ,„ Johnny Cake, I. — Take a cup of corn meal, and the meal should be yellow; Add a cup of wheat flour, to make the meal mellow; Of sugar a cup, white or brown at your pleasure, The color is nothing; — the point is the measure. Now, after the sugar, the flour, and the meal. Comes a cup of sour cream, but, unless you should steal From your neighbors, I fear you would never be able This item to put upon your cook's table; For sure and indeed, in all towns I remember. Sour cream is as scarce as June bugs in December. Instead of sour cream, then, take one cup of milk ; Sweet milk from the dairy,— what a sweet phrase to utter I And to make it cream-like, put into the cup Just three tablespoons, and heaping, of butter. Of cream-tartar and soda, each a teaspoon then add. Or else your poor corn cake will go to the bad . Two eggs must be broken, without being beat, Then a teaspoon of salt your work will complete. Twenty minutes of baking are needful to bring To the point of perfection, this awful good thing. Bishop Williams. 5° Johnny Cake, II. — Two cups of Indian meal, one baking soda, two eggs, salt to taste, sweet milk to cup of flour, one cup of molasses, two eggs, half make the batter. a teaspoon of saleratus, one and a half cups of milk, Mrs. Holden. half a teaspoon of salt. Bake half an hour in a hot!