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After beating yolks of eggs, add rice, butter, flour, baking powder and salt, and then the well-beaten whites of eggs. A little milk may be added if necessary. Cook on greased hot waffle iron or ungreased electric waffle iron. Sour Milk Griddle Cakes l1/^ cups flour 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk 1 tablespoon melted butter V2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon sugar 2 eggs Sift the flour and sugar; dissolve the soda in the buttermilk and add to the flour. Drop in the unbeaten eggs, beat well and lastly add the melted butter. Drop by spoonsful on a hot greased griddle and brown on both sides. Flannel Cakes 2 eggs 1% cups milk 2 cups flour V2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons melted butter 3 teaspoons baking powder Sift baking powder, 'salt, sugar and flour. Beat the egg yolks well and add to the milk. Pour this into the flour, add the melted butter and lastly the well beaten egg whites. Drop by spoonsful on a hot greased griddle, brown on both sides and serve hot with syrup. Pork sausage goes well with flannel cakes. Griddle Cakes 2 cups flour 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 heaping tablespoon sugar I1/-} cups milk Sift flour, salt, sugar and baking powder, add the milk and egg yolks, beat well and then add the melted butter. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth and add last. Bake on a hot griddle greased lightly. / love my wife, I love my baby, I love dem flapjacks flopped in gravy. Mourners, you shall be free, you shall be free, When de good Lord sets you free. Beaten Biscuits 3 cups sifted flour l/2 cup milk Va cup lard Vv teaspoon salt % teaspoon sugar Sift sugar and salt into the flour, blend in the lard and make a very stiff dough, using more or less of the milk as needed as the dough must be stiff. Place on a floured board and roll until it blisters and is smooth. Roll to V'2 inch in thickness, cut with biscuit cutter, stick with a fork and bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for half an hour. Mammy's Baking Powder Biscuits 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder J/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons shortening % cup milk Sift dry ingredients together. Work in shortening with finger tips. Then add milk slowly, stirring the batter until it is smooth. Roll the dough on a floured board until it is V'2 inch thick. Cut with a cookie cutter and bake in a hot (450° F.) oven for fifteen minutes. Good Morning Biscuits tablespoon butter egg, well beaten tablespoon sugar teaspoon lard pint of milk heaping teaspoon salt V-2 yeast cake dissolved in J/4 cup lukewarm water 6 cups flour Pour milk, butter, salt, lard, and sugar into a double boiler and scald; let mixture cool until lukewarm; then dissolve yeast and stir into the mixture. When mixture has cooled, add 2Mi cups of flour and mix into a stiff batter. Then add one well-beaten egg to the batter and put in a warm place to rise. After about five hours, knead as for biscuits using the balance of the flour, and when the dough can be handled easily roll out to % inch thickness. Cut with a biscuit cutter, butter the tops of biscuits, placing one on top of the other to form a double biscuit, and pla'ce in pan far enough apart so that they will not touch each other. Bake for about % of an hour in a hot oven (400° F.).