How we cook in Tennessee ..

Oat Meal Scones. — One cup cold cooked oatmeal, one and onehalf cups flour, one egg, one tablespoon butter, two teaspoons baking powder, milk if required, half teaspoon salt. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder ; rub in the butter and add oatmeal. Blend this with the flour and mix to a dough with the egg, adding milk if required. Roll three-quarters inch thick, cut into triangular cakes and bake, either in the oven or on a hot griddle. Royal Baking Powder.— One pound cream tartar, half pound soda, one big cup flour; mix and sift seven times. Use a little less of this than the bought baking powder. Superior Rice Waffles. — One quart dainty flour, three eggs, one cup boiled rice beaten into the flour, one light teaspoon soda. Make into a batter with buttermilk. Bake quickly in waffle irons. Batter made as above and baked on a griddle makes excellent breakfast cakes. Waffles. — Two eggs, two cups buttermilk, half teaspoon soda, salt; stir in flour to make a thick batter and pour in lump of melted butter size of egg. — Mrs. E. J. Taylor. Waffles. — To one pint buttermilk add two eggs, one pint dainty flour, one tablespoon of lard, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon soda. Dissolve in milk. Waffles. — Two eggs beaten separately, two teacups buttermilk, half teacup sweet milk, two tablespoons lard, one level teaspoon soda, one level teaspoon salt, one pint Dainty flour; add beaten whites last and fry in quite hot waffle irons. — Tennessee Cook Book. Waffles. — One pint dainty flour, two eggs, -one cup sweet milk, one tablespoon baking powder, a pinch of salt, one tablespoon melted lard. Beat eggs well; add milk, then flour, baking powder, salt and lard last. Fry in well greased hot irons; butter and serve hot. Waffles. — One quart Dainty flour, quarter pound butter, two well beaten eggs, sweet milk to make moderately thin ; add one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder. Batter Cakes of Flour. — Two eggs beaten separately, two cups sweet milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, half teaspoon salt; beat all smoothly together and bake on a hot griddle. Sour milk and soda can be substituted for sweet milk and baking powder. — Mrs Reese Lillard. Cheap Recipe for Batter Cakes. — One pint sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon Dainty flour, enough meal to make a good batter. Bake on a hoe. Batter Cakes. — Beat two eggs, add half pint sweet milk, one tablespoon melted butter, one and one-half cups sifted flour, one teaspoon baking powder; beat thoroughly and bake on griddle at once. — Mrs Rorer. Batter Bread. — Beat very light one or two eggs, pour into them one and one-half pints fresh milk; add slowly one pint meal, beating all the time ; add half teaspoon salt and one teaspoon of melted lard or melted butter size of an egg. Pour at once into a well greased warm earthen pan ; bake thirty minutes and serve hot. Griddle Cakes. — Two cups Dainty flour, one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder, two tablespoons melted butter, two eggs, one and one-half cups milk. Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder; add the liquid ingredients to make a batter. Beat well and bake on a hot greased griddle.