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Baking-Powder Breads: Bread

Corn Bread. 2 cupfuls sour milk, 3 eggs, 2 cupfuls Indian meal (white), 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful sugar.

Beat the eggs separately, sift the soda twice through the meal, and add the salt. Beat the ingredients well together, adding the whites last of all. Bake in a moderate oven in muffin rings, with a large spoonful of the batter to each, until golden brown.

Batter Cakes. 1½ teaspoonfuls soda, 3 cupfuls sour milk, 3 eggs, 3½ cupfuls flour.

Beat thoroughly the soda with the sour milk. Beat the yolks of three eggs and add to the milk, then stir in the flour and a little salt, making the batter of the consistency of cake.

Then beat the whites to a stiff froth, fold in, and bake.

Biscuits. 1 quart flour, 4 tablespoonfuls lard, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda.

Sift the flour, add the lard, salt, soda, and enough sour milk to make soft dough; roll thin, cut into biscuits, and bake in a very quick oven. Entire-Wheat Gems. 2 cupfuls sour milk, 2 tablespoonfuls brown sugar, 1 saltspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda.

Stir them all together, add sufficient flour to make a batter that will drop without spreading. Bake in gem pans.

Spoon Biscuit.

BAKING-POWDER BREADS 4 cupfuls sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 1 saltspoonful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter.

To the sour milk add the soda, salt, butter, and sifted flour to form a batter that will drop from a spoon.

Drop into a hot greased pan, and bake in a quick oven.