136 CRANBERRY. 



Hominy is mostly prepared from the white corn of the 

 South ; when coarse it is merely hulled and crushed, but fine 

 hominy is ground. 



Succotash consists of beans boiled till tender, and mixed 

 with boiled corn cut from the cob. Season with fresh butter 

 and salt. 



PAUL STILLMAN'S CORN BREAD. 



Mix with four cups of corn meal one cup of wheat flour ; 

 put in a cup of hot water one teaspoonful of carbonate of 

 soda, or by weight one drachm, with which thoroughly wet 

 the meal ; two or three eggs are an improvement ; then mix 

 in a little water one half of the same measure, or an equal 

 weight, of muriatic acid, and stir it thoroughly with the mass. 

 Spread in a tin pie-pan, and bake immediately in a quick 

 oven. In this recipe, observes Mr. Stillman, the carbonate 

 of soda and muriatic acid combine, and, forming muriate of 

 soda (common salt), give out carbonic-acid gas to inflate or 

 raise the bread. The salt formed in raising the bread is no 

 more than should be used were it added before its combina- 

 tion, and entirely avoids the common objection, where salera- 

 tus is used, of having potash in the bread. 



CRANBERRY. This useful berry is, among condiments, 

 the very sheet-anchor of the New England housewife. 



The wild Cranberry of New England (Oxy coccus macro- 

 carpus} is larger and finer than the European Cranberry 

 (0. pulastris), and it is largely exported. 



It grows mostly in mossy wet land, yet beds are easily 

 prepared in moist or peaty soils, and if thoroughly decayed 

 manure is added, the berries will be larger and finer than the 

 wild ones. Mr. Downing has said, that a square of the size of 

 twenty feet, planted in this way, will yield three or four bush- 

 els annually, quite sufficient for a family. Plants taken 



