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Clam Pancakes

2 cans of clams (2 lb. size). 1 pound of flour. 1 pint of the clam liquor 1 pint of milk. Salt. 10 yolks of eggs. 4 ounces of butter, melted. A spoonful of syrup. 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder.

Cut or chop the clams a little larger than beans. Mix the batter as for other batter cakes, and the clams at last, and bake on a griddle. There is a biographical dictionary across the street, but no use looking in that for Sally Lunn. Who was she? A muffin peddler? Some common body, else she would not have been called Sally. Perhaps a female "good fellow," who invited folks to take a cup o' tea. Maybe a village Hampden or a Howard, or a female Cromwell guiltless of anybody's blood, yet a great backbiter. But "no further seek her merits to disclose;" she might turn out to have been like a certain Aunt Melissy of Pennsylvania, recently sketched in a magazine, who kept boarders, was famous for her savory pot-pies and doughnuts, but who sold whiskey and swore terrifically.