1900. 
13 
Corn Pone. 
Is this the corn pone J. A. M. ate of 
her mother’s making? It was my 
mother’s way. Scald one quart white 
cornmeal with one quart boiling water; 
add one-half teacup New Orleans mo¬ 
lasses, one tablespoon salt, stir well, 
add one quart cold water—still stirring 
—also one quart meal; stir well. Set 
in warm place all day, then add one 
pint salt rising or any good yeast. My 
mother used the salt rising and baked 
same day she did her salt rising light 
bread. After mixing and stirring well 
again, grease the skillet, pour in your 
mixture and put to bake for four hours, 
or it is better left in oven with moder¬ 
ate heat all night. MRS. denbie. 
Pumpkin Bread. 
If possible, will you publish among your 
cooking recipes the formula for making 
pumpkin bread? MRS. W. S. D. 
The following recipe for squash 
bread is given by Mrs. Lincoln in her 
Boston Cook Book; no doubt pumpkin 
would be used in the same way. One 
cup squash, stewed and sifted; two 
tablespoonfuls sugar; \y 2 cup scalded 
milk, one teaspoonful salt; one table¬ 
spoonful butter; / 2 cup yeast; flour 
enough to knead it. Mix the sugar 
and salt with the squash, add the but¬ 
ter melted in the hot milk, and when 
cool add the yeast and flour. Knead 
15 minutes; let it rise till light. Knead 
and shape into loaf or biscuits; let it 
rise well, then bake. 
Apple Sauce Cake. 
A Long Island reader asks us to re¬ 
peat this recipe, which was given last 
March. It calls for one-half cup of 
butter, one cup sugar, l l / 2 cup apple 
sauce, strained and sweetened, one- 
half pound raisins, one-half pound cur¬ 
rants, one-half teaspoonful of cinna¬ 
mon, the same of cloves and allspice, 
two cups flour with pinch of salt, two 
teaspoonfuls baking soda. Bake in a 
large bread tin. It will be noticed that 
neither milk nor eggs are used, but the 
flavor is delicious, and its rich brown 
suggests the use of molasses. 
A slightly different recipe, given in 
the Rural Cook Book, is made as fol¬ 
lows: One cup sugar, / 2 cun shorten¬ 
ing, one saltspoon salt, y 2 teaspoon 
ground cloves, one teaspoonful cinna¬ 
mon, y 2 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 y 2 
cup raisins, more fruit if desired; one 
teaspoon soda dissolved in a little 
water, one cup unsweetened apple 
sauce. Put the dissolved soda into the 
sauce, let it foam over the ingredients; 
stir in lV\ cup flour; bake 45 minutes. 
Suggestions in Waffles. 
Rice Waffles.—Mix a cupful and a 
half of milk with two cupfuls of boiled 
rice and stir until the mixture is per¬ 
fectly smooth and all lumps have dis¬ 
appeared. Add the yolks of three eggs, 
thoroughly beaten; two and a half more 
cupfuls of milk, two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, a saltspoonful of salt and flour 
enough to make a thin batter—one that 
will pour. Sift a teaspoonful of bak¬ 
ing powder with a part of the flour. 
Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the 
three eggs, and bake in hot, thoroughly 
oiled or buttered waffle irons. 
Raised Waffles.—Scald one and three- 
quarters cupful of milk, add one table¬ 
spoonful of butter, one-half teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt. When lukewarm add one- 
quarter yeast cake dissolved in one- 
quarter cupful of lukewarm water, and 
two scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Beat 
well. Let rise over night. Next morn¬ 
ing add yolks of two eggs well beaten 
and whites of the eggs beaten stiff. One 
egg will dg. Have waffle iron closely 
fitted on the range, well heated on one 
side, turned and well heated on the 
other, and thoroughly greased. In 
filling put one tablespoonful of mixture 
in each compartment near the center 
of the iron. It should be turned al¬ 
most as soon as filled and covered, if it 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
has been properly heated. In using 
a new waffle iron great care must be 
taken to grease it thoroughly, and a 
dough of flour and water should first 
be baked in it; this is also a good 
method of cleaning an iron that has 
been out of use for some time. 
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The skirt consists of three pieces. The 
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IS 0m 
WESTERN CANADA 
More Big Crops in 1908 
60,000 settlers from the United 
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to EACH SETTLER— 160 free 
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*‘A vast, rich country and a con¬ 
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Many have paid tho entire cost 
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it 
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