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Corn Dodgers, — To one quart corn meal add a little salt and a small tablespoon lard ; scald with boiling water and beat hard for a few minutes ; drop a large spoonful in a well-greased pan. The batter should be thick enough to just flatten on the bottom, leaving them quite high in the center. Bake in a hot oven. Gems,—One tablespoon each sugar and butter, one egg, one cup milk, two teaspoons Daking-powder, flour to stiffen; beat sugar and butter to a cream and add the rest. This recipe makes one dozen gems. Corn Gems, — Two cups each com meal, flour , and sweet milk, two eggs, three heaping teaspoons ^^^ baking-powder, one-half cup each butter and sugar, and a little salt. Put into not gem pans. Good Graham Gems. — Three cups sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one of salt, one tablespoon brown sugar, one of melted lard, one beaten egg ; to the egg add the milk, then the sugar and salt, then the Graham flour (with the soda mixed in), together with the lard ; make a stiff batter, so that it will drop, not pour, from' the spoon. Have gem-pans very hot, grease, fill and bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Sweet Milk Gems, — Beat one egg well, add a pint new milk, a little salt and Graham flour until it will drop off the spoon nicely ; heat and butter the gem-pans before dropping in the dough ; bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. Oat Meal Gems, — One cup cooked oat meal, or soaked overnight in one cup water. Add one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one cup flour, a little salt, and bake in gem-pans. Try one first and if too moist or sticky add more flour, Wheaten Gems, — Mix one teaspoon baking-powder and a little salt into one pint flour ; add to the beaten yolks of two eggs one teacup sweet milk or cream, a piece of butter (melted) half the size of an egg, the flour with baking-powder and salt mixed, and the well beaten whites of the two eggs. Beat well, bake immediately in gem pans in a hot oven, and take out and send to the table immediately. Alabama Johnny-Cake. — Cook a pint of rice till tender, add a tablespoon butter; when cold add two beaten eggs and one pint meal, and when mixed spread on an oaken board and bake by tipping the board up before the fire-place. When done on one side turn over. The dougn should be spread half an inch thick. Johnny- Cake, — Two eggs, one cup sugar, one and one-half of com meal, two-thirds cup melted butter, or lard, two cups each sour milk and flour, two teaspoons each saleratus and salt. Johnny- Cake. — Two-thirds teaspoon soda, three tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon cream tartar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, six tablespoons Indian meal, three tablespoons flour, and a little salt. This makes a thin batter. Corn Muffins. — One quart sifted Indian meal, a heaping teaspoon butter, one quart milk, a salt-spoon salt, a third cup yeast, a tablespoon of molasses ; let it rise four or five hours, and bake in muffin-rings. . Corn Muffins. — Two cups corn meal, one-half cup flour, onefourth cup sugar, two eggs, butter size of a walnut, one teaspoon salt, two tea-spoons baking powder and enough sweet milk to make quite thin. Bake in gem pans.