1 teacup boiled rice.

2 teacups sifted corn meal,

½ teacup melted butter.

3 eggs, beaten separately,

½ teaspoonful salt.

Bake in a very hot oven, using buttered iron muffin moulds.—Mrs. S. T.

Cracklin Bread.

Take one quart sifted corn meal and a teacup of cracklins. Rub the latter in the meal as fine as you can. Add a teaspoonful of salt and make up with warm water into a stiff dough. Make into pones, and eat hot.—Mrs. P. W.

Virginia Ash Cake.

Add a teaspoonful of salt to a quart of sifted corn meal. Make up with water and knead well. Make into round, flat cakes. Sweep a clean place on the hottest part of the hearth. Put the cake on it and cover it with hot wood ashes.