IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



milk, and, taking off a lump of the mush at the 

 time, and putting it into the milk, you take up 

 a spoonful at a time, having a little milk along* 

 with it ; and this is called mush and milk. But, 

 here is a most excellent pudding, even if there 

 be no milk to eat with it, that is to say, if it be 

 made originally with milk; and, if there be no 

 milk to be had, as must be generally the case at 

 the houses of the labourers, here is a very good 

 substitute for bread, whether you take it cold or 

 hot. It is not, like the miserable potatoe, a 

 thing that turns immediately to water ; nor is it 

 like a pudding made oi flour and ivater, which is 

 hard, closely clung together, heavy upon the 

 stomach, indigestible, and of course umvhole- 

 some, whence comes the old saying, " Cold 

 pudding to settle your love;" that is to say, to 

 cool a fellow exceedingly, if not to extinguish 

 the source of his passions altogether. The ravsh, 

 so far from being hard and lumpy when cold, is 

 quite light, very much puffed up ; and this is the 

 very thing, made of water, and not of milk, 

 which physicians recommend to all persons, v/ho 

 from over eating, over drinking, or aiiy other 

 cause, have feeble stomachs. The corn-meal and 

 flour is wholesome, more so than wheat flour, in 

 all its states or manners of cooking ; but, this is 

 the manner the most in vogue throughout the 

 United States of America ; and, if a poor man's 

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