SOLON ROBINSON, 1849 205 



Recipes for the Ladies. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:161; May, 1849] 



[March 25, 1849] 



I HOPE my dear friends will not imagine for a moment 

 that I neglect their interests while taking notes. Here 

 is proof that I am still mindful to pick up all little items 

 like the following for future use : — 



Louisiana Muffin Bread. — Take two pints of flour and 

 one and one half of sifted cornmeal, two spoonfuls of 

 butter, one spoonful of yeast, and two eggs, and mix and 

 bake for breakfast. It is good.^ 



Hopping Johnny (jambalaya). — Take a dressed 

 chicken, or full-grown fowl, if not old, and cut all the 

 flesh into small pieces, with a sharp knife. Put this into 

 an iron pot, with a large spoonful of butter and one onion 

 chopped fine ; steep and stir it till it is brown ; then add 

 water enough to cover it, and put in some parsley, spices, 

 and red pepper pods, chopped fine, and let it boil till you 

 think it is barely done, taking care to stir it often, so as 

 not to burn it; then stir in as much rice, when cooked, 

 as will absorb all the water, which will be one pint of rice 

 to two of water ; stir and boil it a minute or so, and then 

 let it stand and simmer until the rice is cooked, and you 

 will have a most delicious dish of palatable, digestible 

 food. 



Something for the Children. — Make a dish of molasses 

 candy, and, while it is hot, pour it out upon a deep plate, 

 and stir in the meats of pecans, hickory nuts, hazle nuts, 

 or peanuts, just as thick as you can stir them in, and then 

 let it cool. Be careful and not eat too much of it, for it 

 is very rich. It is a very nice dish for evening parties of 

 the dear little girls and boys; and I have known some 

 "big children" to like it pretty well. SOLON ROBINSON. 



Alabama, March 25th, 1849. 



^ Reviewer was moved by this article to ask for another southern 

 recipe for bread, "made of hommony, and, perhaps, a little flour 

 and eggs," American Agriculturist, 8:245 (August, 1849). 



