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Ash Cake

1 quart corn meal 2 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon shortening Boiling water Scald the meal; add the salt and shortening, and when the mixture is cool, form it into oblong cakes, adding more water if necessary. Wrap the cakes in cabbage leaves, or place one cabbage leaf under the cakes and one over them, and cover them with hot ashes.