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Tenth Day: Graham

Three cups Graham flour, one of white flour, three of milk, one tablespoonful lard, one well heaped of white sugar, one salt-spoon salt, one teaspoonful soda and two of cream tartar. Mix as for soda buscuit (No. 104). "We might have some Sally Lunns, Mamma," said Amy. "They're good." "Yes, but real Sally Lunns are made with yeast, and the modern imitations are not quite the same thing.

Our 'company tea-cake' (No. 129) is not very different; but I'll give you the recipe," No. 136-SALLY LUNNS.

One scant quart flour, one cup milk, half a cup lard and the same of butter, four eggs, one teaspoonful salt, one of cream tartar and half as much soda. Eggs to be beaten separately; shortening melted; cream tartar sifted into the flour, and soda dissolved in hot water, as usual. No. 137-LAPLANDERS.

One pint Graham flour, one pint warm water, one wellbeaten egg, half a teaspoonful salt. Beat the egg with one or two spoonfuls of the water, add the salt, half the water, and the flour; beat thoroughly, then stir in the rest of the water. Have gem-pans very hot, butter them, and set immediately into the oven. To have these in perfection, the small tins, after being heated and buttered, should be set into a hot dripping-pan on the top of the stove, and the batter poured in from a pitcher, that there may be no possibility of cooling. Made with milk instead of water, these may be called Graham puffs. "Why is it called Graham flour, Aunt Jane?" "Because it was brought into general use in this country by Dr. Graham, who thought fine flour extremely unwholesome for everybody, and would have been glad to abolish it entirely if he could. It is not quite such a favorite now as it was once, but still every one allows that it is more wholesome than fine flour, and it makes a pleasant variety for our table. Brown bread is made with yeast, like white." "Have you decided yet what we shall have for tea, Aunt Jane?" "We'll have huckleberry cake, certainly; and I was going to have tea-cake, but I think some biscuit and waffles will be best. You all want to get through in time to be dressed for tea, so we'll contrive not to have you too late in the kitchen. The biscuits may be put in to bake an hour beforehand, as it will not hurt them to stand half an hour if they are kept in a warm place; and, before you make them, you may mix the batter for the huckleberry cake, all but the soda, which Rhoda will add the last thing, and the same with the waffles, which, of course, she will have to bake. Some time when we have only our own family, I should like to have you learn to finish them entirely." "We have no recipes for waffles, aunty." "You shall have, if you will get out your note-books. I'll give you three from Mrs. Miller's book, all delicious, as I can testify."