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oven.

Darmody & McClures Premium Corn Meal should be used with these

recipes.

CORN BREAD. MRS. F. E. H. SELLERS.

One pint buttermilk, one pint corn meal, one pint flour, one

teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls soda in milk, six tablespoonfuls

molasses, one egg. Bake in slow oven thirty minutes.

STEAMED CORN BREAD. MRS. CHAS. MOORE.

Two cupfuls new milk, two cupfuls Indian meal, one and one-half

cupfuls flour, two-thirds cupful New Orleans molasses, one scant

teaspoon soda. Mix flour, meal, and salt together thoroughly; then

add milk, and beat till smooth. Dissolve soda in molasses; add to

mixture; then put in buttered pan; steam three hours, setting steamer

over cold water. Put in oven fifteen minutes.

POTATO RUSKS. MRS. E. S. JORDAN.

Six good-sized potatoes cooked soft and then mashed, one-half cup

butter and one-half cup lard mixed, one cup sugar, one-half cup cooled

potato water, two tablespoons flour, one cup yeast. Mix the above;

let rise, and then beat three eggs; put in, and work up.

PENN RUSKS. MRS. A. C. AULT.

One large potato. Make sponge same as bread in the evening. In the

morning, add one pint of sweet milk, one cup white sugar, one-half cup

butter, and more flour. Let rise again; knead out soft; let rise

again; cut out; put in pans; let rise once more. Bake fifteen

minutes.

Best results obtained by using "ELECTRIC LIGHT FLOUR."

RAISED BISCUIT. MRS. M. A. MOORHEAD.

One pint sweet milk, one half cup butter, one tablespoonful sugar, one

tablespoonful yeast, a little salt, whites of two eggs beaten stiff.

Make the sponge at supper time. At bed time, work in flour to make a

stiff dough. Put in warm place to rise over night. In the morning

turn it out on the kneading board. Smooth out with the hand about one

inch thick; cut in small cakes; let stand five minutes; put in oven;

bake fifteen minutes. Delicious for breakfast.

BEATEN BISCUIT. GAIL HAMILTON.

One quart flour, one heaping tablespoonful lard, water to make stiff

dough, a little salt. Beat well with rolling pin; work into flat

biscuit; make a few holes in each with a fork. Bake in quick oven.

TO MAKE RUSKS. MRS. G. A. WRIGHT.

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