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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hominy Muffins. J 2 cups fine hominy—b( iled and cold. 3 eggs. 3 cups sour milk. If sweet, add one teaspoonful cream' tartar. £ cup melted butter. 2 teaspoonfuls salt. 2 tablespoonfuls white sugar. 1 large cup flour. 1 teaspoonful soda. Beat the hominy smooth; stir in the milk, then the butter, salt, and sugar; next the eggs, which should firsl Se well beaten; then the soda, dissolved in hot water; lastly tlin flour. There are no more delicious or wholesome muffins than th!se, if rightly mixed and quickly baked. Belle's Muffins. 3 pints of floir. 1 quart of milk. 2 eggs. 2 tablespoonfuls cream-tartar. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1 " salt. Sift the cream-tartar with the flour. Beat the eggs rery light. Dissolve the soda in hot water. Bake in rings ill a quick oven. Corn Bread. There is a marked difference between the corn-meal ground at the South, and that which is sent out fron Northern mills. If any one doubts this, it is not she who bus perseveringly tiled both kinds, and demonstrated tcher own conviction that the same treatment will not da for them. An intelligent lady once told me that thu aha pa of the particles composing the meal was different—the one being round and smooth, the other angular. I am inclined to believe this. The Southern meal is certainly coarser, aiid the bread made from it less compact. Moreover, there is a partiality at the North for yellow meal, which tha Southerners regard as only fit for chicken and cattle-feed, The yellow may be the sweeter, but I acknowledge that 1 have never succeeded in making really nice bread from it. Indian meal should be purchased in small quantities, i.vxcept for a very large family. It is apt to heat, mould, and grow musty, if kept long in bulk or in a warm place tf not sweet and d...