Cream Crisps

1/2 cup graham flour 1/2 cup white flour.

2 teaspoons sugar 1/3 cup thin cream.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

Sift the flour, salt, and sugar together in a bowl; pour the cream into the flour slowly, a few spoonfuls at a time, mixing each spoonful to a dough with the flour as fast as poured in. When all the liquid has been added, gather the fragments of dough together. Knead thoroughly for from 5 to 10 minutes; roll very thin; cut into 2 inch lengths. Prick with a fork and bake in a moderate oven.

Corn Pones

1 pint corn meal.

1 1/4 cups boiling water.

1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt.

1 1/2 tablespoons butter.

Dissolve the sugar and the salt in the water; work butter into the cornmeal, then add the boiling water; cover and let stand 10 minutes; shape into oblong cakes 2 1/2 inches long; bake in a quick oven 20 to 30 minutes.

Hoe Cake

1 pint yellow corn meal 1/4 cup sugar.

1 pint milk.

2 tablespoons butter.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

Mix the dry ingredients and the butter. Heat the milk to boiling and pour into the meal, stirring meanwhile. Cook directly over the fire until thickened. Drop by spoonfuls on an oiled pan and bake in a hot oven until nicely browned.

Oaten Cakes

2 cups oatmeal 1 cup white flour.

1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter.

1/2 cup or more of cold water.

Sift the flour, oatmeal and salt together and chop into it the butter. Mix with cold water into a stiff dough. Knead and roll into very thin cakes. Roll out into as round a piece as possible, trim and cut circle into quadrants. Bake in the toasting oven directly under but not too near the flame, for eight to ten minutes, or until nicely browned on both sides. This is the Scotch oaten cake which is said to have produced the brawn of the Scottish people.

Golden Corn Cake

3/4 cup yellow corn meal 1 1/4 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt.

1 tablespoon melted butter 1 cup milk 1 egg.

1 teaspoon soda.

80 minims hydrochloric acid (C. P).

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Sift the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg, add the milk and hydrochloric acid; stir in the dry ingredients; add the melted butter. Turn into a buttered pan and bake in a quick oven 20 to 30 minutes.

If baking powder is used sift with the dry ingredients and omit the soda and hydrochloric acid.

Coffee Cake

% cup sugar Y2 cup milk 1 egg.

4 tablespoons melted butter teaspoon salt 1 cup flour y% cup cornstarch 1 teaspoon cinnamon.

1 teaspoon soda 80 minims hydrochloric acid (C. P).

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Mix all of the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg and add the milk and two-thirds of the dry ingredients; then add the melted butter and beat thoroughly. Next add the hydrochloric acid and mix quickly. Then add the remainder of the dry ingredients and turn into a shallow pan and bake in a quick oven. As soon as removed from the oven brush the top of the cake with melted butter and sprinkle over it two tablespoons of granulated sugar mixed with one teaspoon of cinnamon.

If baking powder is used sift with the dry ingredients and omit the acid and the soda.