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melted butter, and a teaspoonful of salt. Some cooks add a quarter of a 

 pound of sugar, and half a nutmeg. Bake them immediately. 



RICE WAFFLES. Take a teacup and a half of boiled rice, warm it with 

 a pint of milk, mix it smooth, then take it from the fire, stir in a pint of 

 cold milk and a teaspooniul of salt. Beat four eggs, and stir them in, 

 together with sufficient flour to make a thick batter. 



RICE WAFERS. Melt a quarter of a pound of butter, and mix it with a 

 pound of rice flour, a tablespoonful of salt, and a wine glass of wine. 

 Beat four eggs, and stir in, together with just cold milk enough to enable 

 you to roll them out easily. They should be rolled out as thin as possible, 

 cut with a wine glass into cakes, and baked in a moderate oven, on 

 buttered flat tins. 



Iribing, 



DEIVING A SINGLE HOESE, 



BAKING YOUR SEAT. In commencing these instructions, 

 we will suppose your horse to have been harnessed and 

 brought to your door. It is of course to be expected that 

 the groom has seen to his shoes, his harness, and the axles of 

 the wheels ; still no prudent driver would mount a vehicle 

 in which was a high-couraged horse, without looking to 

 see that the reins were properly fastened to the bit, the 

 head-piece properly on, the throat-lash fastened, the traces, 

 back-band and belly-band quite as they ought to be, nor 

 indeed without giving a look around his horse to see that his shoes were 

 on, which can of course be done without holding up the foot ; and we will 

 here remark, that if it be necessary to see that the main points of your 

 harness are right, when you have the advantage of the daylight, it is even 

 more necessary that a critical examination take place by night ; this can 

 be effected as well by the hand as by the eyes ; and we should advise you 

 particularly to observe that the reins are correctly placed, as many acci- 

 dents have arisen from their being crossed. Having attended to these 

 things, take the reins and whip in your right hand ; then mount the 



