Plum Cobbler
Take one quart of flour, four table-spoons melted lard, half teaspoon salt, two tea-spoons baking-powder; mix as for biscuit , with either sweet milk or water, roll thin, and line a pudding -dish or dripping-pan, nine by eighteen inches; mix three table-spoons flour and two of sugar together, and sprinkle over the crust; then pour in three pints canned damson plums, and sprinkle over them one coffee-cup sugar; wet the edges with a little flour and water mixed, put on upper crust, press the edges together, make two openings by cutting two incisions at right angles an inch in length, and bake in a quick oven half an hour. Peaches, apples, or any kind of fresh or canned fruit, can be made in the same wav. - Miss S. Alice Melching.