Of course, a smaller family than five persons will not 

 require so large a baking. The same proportions of 

 flour, yeast, and water, should be observed in a smaller 

 baking. 



BISCUIT. 



A very good kind of family biscuit can be made in the 

 same way as the bread, by using a less quantity and only 

 adding a little shortening, either of butter or lard a 

 table-spoonful of lard, or two of butter, will be sufficient 

 for as much dough as will make a large loaf of bread, 

 and that will suffice for a family breakfast or supper.* 



ANOTHER BTJISCUT. One cup shortening, four cups 

 milk, warmed together ; half a cup yeast, flour to make 

 it stiff. 



QUICK BISCUIT. One quart sour cream, a large tea- 

 spoonful saleratus, a little salt, and flour enough to maKe 

 a paste stiff enough to roll. This can be baked in a 

 spider on a few embers. 



If you have some milk or buttermilk, you can make 

 them very nice by rubbing a small bit of shortening into 

 the flour and mixing with the milk, as in the foregoing 

 you use the cream. 



BREAD MADE OF WOOD. 



In times of great scarcity, and where famine threatens, 

 it is well to know how to prepare a nutritious substance, 

 which may go under the name of bread, from the beech 

 and other woods destitute of turpentine. 



Take green wood, chop it into very small chips ; or 

 make it into shavings, which is better. Boil these three 

 or four times, stirring them very hard during boiling. 



This douffh may be nied to make jjood common douph-nuU. by adding to ft a 

 little allt pice and molawei, or ugor ; and fry, after having been left to rue tbe 

 *cood tune 



