Mix a pint of corn mush with two of wheat flour, a spoonful of butter or
lard, two eggs and half a tea-cup of yeast; make it in a batter with
water or milk, and bake like buckwheat cakes.


Bread Batter Cakes.

Soak slices of stale bread in cold sweet milk for half an hour, then put
it over the fire, and let it come to a boil; and mash it well, when
nearly cool, add wheat flour enough to make a stiff batter, beat this
together with two eggs, a tea-spoonful of salt, and a table-spoonful of
good yeast, let it rise and bake as buckwheat cakes, if light before you
are ready, set them in a cold place.


Butter-milk Cakes.

You may make a very good batter cake without eggs. To a quart of
butter-milk, put a piece of lard, the size of an egg; warm them
together, and stir in a tea-spoonful of salaeratus; make it in a thin
batter with flour; beat it a few minutes, and bake it as other cakes.


Buckwheat Cakes.

Take quart of buckwheat flour, half a pint of wheat flour, and a
spoonful of salt; make them into a thick batter, with milk-warm water,
put in a half tea-cup of yeast, and beat it well, set it by the fire to
rise, and if it should be light before you are ready to bake, put a
tea-cup of cold water on the top, to prevent it from running over, if it