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Indian Meal Gruel

Take one quart of boiling water; onehalf teaspoon of salt; two tablespoons of meal; one tablespoon of flour; four tablespoons of cold water. Place the meal and flour in the cold water, rub them smooth, and stir the paste into the boiling water.

Stir well, and when the gruel boils, set it back where it will simmer gently for two hours. Add the salt, cook for one-half hour longer, and serve with cream or milk, the same as in the preceding recipe.

PANADA-Sprinkle one teaspoon of salt between two large Boston, soda or graham crackers or hard pilot biscuit. Place the crackers in a bowl, and pour on just enough boiling water to soak them well. Set the bowl in a vessel of boiling water, and let it remain twenty or thirty minutes, until the crackers are quite clear, but not at all broken; then lift them out carefully without breaking and lay them on a hot saucer. Serve very hot with sugar and cream.