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infertile eggs added improve the cake. Table scraps may 

 be mixed in the batter. 



Grind together corn, wheat and oats, equal parts ; mix 

 with milk, and bake. 



Grind together 20 lbs. corn, 20 lbs. oats, 10 lbs. barley, 

 add 10 lbs. wheat bran. This makes what is known as 

 " excelsior meal." To make cake of this : Take one 

 quart sour milk or buttermilk, add a little salt and molasses, 

 a quart of water, a heaping teaspoonful saleratus, thicken 

 with the meal a little thicker than batter for corn cakes ; 

 bake in shallow pans. 



Take 1 pint corn meal, 1 teacup bran, 1 teaspoon meat 

 meal, 1 raw egg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teacup cold water; 

 bake two hours. 



Take 3 qts. corn meal, 1 qt. wheat middlings, 1 cup 

 meat meal ; mix with water or skim milk to which has been 

 added 4 tablespoons vinegar, 2 teaspoons soda. 



To make a good mash : 



Make a stiff thick mush of corn meal stirred into boiling 

 water. Into this stir the other ingredients used. 



A very satisfactory mash is made by adding bran alone 

 to the mush, the proportion of this mash should be about 

 half and half corn meal and bran, and when finished should 

 be light and crumbly, but not" mealy — that is, a spoonful 

 or handful of it should have a tendency to crumble like a 

 lump of earth, the particles of which without being wet 



