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Rub the butter into the flour. When the flour feels like fine meal add the well-beaten eggs, and enough cream, or rich milk, to make a dough stiff enough to roll. Roll out as thin as paper, and cut into circles with a tin cutter, prick each biscuit with a fork, dust with flour and place them in a pan and bake to a light brown. WAFFLES Flour, 1 cup, ^Sgs, 2, Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon, Salt, 1/^ teaspoon, Milk, Sugar. Beat the eggs separately and add to them a cup of flour and thin down with sweet milk to a batter, adding half a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of baking-powder. Beat all together, and they are ready to cook. RICE WAFFLES Cold boiled rice, 1 cup, Milk, 11/^ cups. Eggs, well-beaten, 2, Flour, 2 cups. Salt, % teaspoon. Melted butter, 1 tablespoon. Baking-powder, 2 heaping teaspoons. Add the milk to the rice, and stir so that there may be no lumps. Add to this the salt, and the eggs, well-beaten. Then Sift in the flour. Add the butter, melted, and the bakingpowder. Bake at once. RICE GRIDDLE CAKES Boiled rice, 1 cup. Flour, 1 cup, Butter, Yo cup, Sweet milk, 1 quart, Salt, 1 teaspoon. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Stir the rice in the milk and let it stand for half an hour, and then add the salt, butter, flour and soda, the latter being dissolved in a little cold water. RICE PANCAKES Cold, boiled rice, 1 cup, Sour milk, 1 cup. Sifted flour, 2 cups. Eggs, well-beaten, 2, Soda, 1 teaspoon. Salt, 14 teaspoon. Dissolve the soda in a little cold water. Mix all the ingredients. Bake on a griddle. SOUR MILK CAKES Sour milk, 1 quart, Flour, 4 cups, Soda, 2 teaspoons (dissolved in boiling water), Molasses, 3 tablespoons (put into the milk), Salt, % teaspoon. Put the flour into a deep bowl and mix the salt through it. Make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour the milk into it, and lastly add the soda which has been dissolved in boiling water. GERMAN PANCAKES Flour, 6 large tablespoons, Eggs, 6, Milk, % cup. Baking-powder, 1 level teaspoon, Salt, a pinch. The milk should be mixed with i/^ cup of water. Beat the eggs, and mix in, slowly, the flour, milk and water. Add a little salt, and 1 level teaspoon of baking-powder. BERLIN PANCAKES Flour, 2l^ cups. Milk, 1 quart, Eggs, 6, Butter, Yo tablespoon. Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon, Salt, 1 teaspoon. Stir the flour and salt together, beat the egg-yolks, add them to the milk, mix gradually with the flour to a smooth batter. In a large bowl beat the whites to a stiff dry froth, then gradually add to them the batter, beating till the whole is entirely mixed. Place a medium-sized frying-pan over the fire, melt in it the butter or lard. When hot, pour in sufficient of the batter to cover the bottom of the pan. Shake till cooked to an even brown on the underside, then turn over, and cook the other side in the same manner. Transfer the pancake to a hot plate, and spread it with marmalade, butter, or sugar. Bake in the same manner, till all the batter is used. WHOLE-WHEAT CAKES Whole-wheat flour, 1 pint, Salt, 1/^ teaspoon. Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon, Cold water, 1 pint.