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The ladies of 1870s Chicago pooled their recipes and signed every one — corned beef from Mrs. Beaty, lemon pie from Mrs. Saulter.

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Nice Little Cakes-Cheap

Madame E. Pernet.

One-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup milk, three cups flour, two eggs, two spoonsful Cook's Friend baking powder. Mode-Beat the eggs, add the sugar, the batter well beaten, and half a nutmeg if the flavour be approved of, if not any other spice, or a few drops of essence of any kind; mix the baking powder well with the flour, and add by degrees to the mixture ; bake in small patty pans half an hour in a quick oven. They will be found very good if properly made.

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