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First step in making this bread is 
.a trip to the spring. We have many 
very cold springs, and the jar of 
buttermilk is set, therein. Much of 
the curd will have.settled and the 
whey .risen. Most of the. whey is 
_poured aside for the pigs. 
To two cups of unsifted meal, 
salt is added according to family 
taste, the milk is tasted and soda 
apportioned according to sourness. 
Then*the whole is sifted. The meal 
is gthen moistened with a little of 
the milk; and four nice fresh eggs 
broken and beaten in, one at a time. 
Then enough more milk is added to 
make a fairly thin batter. Nice bacon 
or ham drippings are melted in a 
pan and sloshed around. Batter 
poured in and whole baked to a rich 
brown, and eaten soused with but- 
ter. Now figure that out for vita- 
mins and calories. 
There are two variations on this 
which we have particularly enjoyed. 
Although I have something like 30 
different recipes for cornbread. Use 
corn. meal and wheat shorts (ob- 
tained at any feed store), equal 
parts, and follow. above recipe. 
Makes delicious muffins. 
Use half corn meal and half cold 
boiled rice in above recipe and bake 
_in a bread pan. One of Mr.. Cole's 
hired men told another that Mrs. 
Cole's cornbread is as good as some 
_ women's. cake. | had. used _ this 
recipe. q | 

Ralph bought a pig last spring, 
for this winter's meat, and [I am 
worried. We have three _ bearing 
persimmon trees in his pasture. Hogs 
like this fruit, but much of it makes 
the pork taste like possum meat. 
Now “‘possum and taters’’ is a fine 
dish—for once in awhile—but a 
calamity for steady diet. 
There must be many business 
women who would like a few win- 
dow flowers, but can give them only 
a lick and a promise of care at best, 
and then are away over week-ends, 
some 
‘which are hiberating there. 
THE YELLOW SHEETS November-December, 1947 
_] wonder if they realize how many 
plants there are which flourish on 
such treatment. I have been amazed 
‘to discover how many~ such _ plants 
‘there are. 
If the room does not 
freeze at night, Sanseverias and 
Wandering Jew are common exam- 
ples. There are at least four varie- 
ties of each to be had. There are a 
number of tender Cacti, suitable for 
pot culture, which will not be hurt 
by a week's neglect. 
Kalanchoe (or Bryophyllum) 
fedschenkoi seems to me to be al- 
most foo Iproof, if not frosted. Bill- 
bergia nutans is another; and I have 
an African wildling which |] cannot 
identify, which looks like a Bryo- 
phyllum, but propagates like a Ge- 
ranium. Also another African, very 
dwarf, almost like a Moss. All of 
these good winter bloomers, and 
the last two sometimes in summer. 
If water freezes in her room oc- 
casionally, there are the hardy Sed- 
ums and Cacti. A nice ornament 
could be arranged from a wire plant 
stand and several different Sedums. 
‘Some kinds die to the ground each 
winter; some remain green, and 
take on different colors, 
mainly reds, yellows and bronzes. 
Now would be a good time to in- 
ve tin a brood coop and a few Ban- | 
tam hens. Cultivate a spot of ground 
and then move the coop over it. 
The hens will “go for’ the bugs 
When 
we moved to Wickes, Rrk., our 
only garden spot was second year 
from old pasture. Cutworms abided 
there. My son who owned the Ban- 
tams made a small but long, nar- 
row coop for them. They were let 
out for exercise a short time before 
dark each day. Coop moved several 
times a week. In two years they had 
rid that garden of cutworms, and 
other pests were much less. He had 
less than half a dozen of them. 
