AN OLIVE LEAF FROM THE HOUSEWIVES OF AMERICA TO THE HOUSEWIVES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND: OR, RECEIPTS FOR MAKING VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD OF INDIAN CORN MEAL. COMMON JOURNEY, OR JOHNNY CAKE.-Into one quart of meal, stir one pint of boiling water, with salt; spread it on a board an inch thick, and bake it before the fire, or otherwise on an iron over the fire. SUPERIOR JOHNNY CAKE.-Take one pint of cream, half a pint of meal, two eggs, two tablespoonsful of wheat flour, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and salt to suit the taste. Bake in a hot oven.-[The above receipt was furnished by the Rev. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, brother of the "Martyr," with the remark, "Try it, and tell Lord Morpeth to do the same."] 66 AN EXCELLENT JOHNNY CAKE.-Take one quart of milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, one teacup of wheat flour, and Indian meal sufficient to make a batter of the consistency of pancakes. Bake quick, in pans previously buttered, and eat it warm with butter or milk. INDIAN POUND CAKE.-Eight eggs; the weight of the eggs in sugar; the weight of six of them in meal; half a pound in meal, half a pound of butter, and one large nutmeg. INDIAN CAKE.-One pint of sour milk, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, one tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one egg, salt, and stiff enough to pour. BATTER CAKES.-No. 1.-Prepare a thick batter by wetting sifted meal with cold water, and then stirring it into that which is boiling. Salt, and when it is lukewarm, add yeast; when risen, bake in thin cakes over the fire. No. 2.-Take some milk, correct its acidity with carbonate of soda, add salt and meal to make a thick batter, and cook as before. No. 3.-Stir a quart of boiling water into the same quantity of meal, add a little salt and two eggs well beaten; cook as before. GINGER CAKE.-One quart of sour milk with carbonate of soda, one quart of meal, one pint of flour, one gill of molasses; add salt and ginger to your taste. A CORN MEAL CAKE.-For one pint of meal take one teacup of sweet milk, one cup of sour cream, half a cup of molasses or treacle, one egg well beaten, one teaspoonful carbonate of soda, half a spoonful of salt; cinnamon, nutmeg, or other spices may be used to suit the taste. CORN DODGERS.-To one quart of meal pour boiling water till thoroughly wet; add two tablespoonsful of flour; a teaspoonful of salt; mix it well; spread it smooth in a spider or pan; first heat and oil the pan well, then set it on the coals till you can run a knife under and turn it round, and then set it up before the fire to roast. HOE CAKE. Three tablespoonsful of sugar; three of cream; three eggs; one teacup of buttermilk. Stir in the meal till it is a little thicker than batter, and salt and spice to your liking. CORN BREAD.-To one quart of sifted meal, add one teacup of cream, three eggs, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda dissolved in water, buttermilk to make it quite soft; stir it well. and bake it in a bake-kettle or oven. CORN AND FLOUR BREAD.-Prepare a thin batter by wetting sifted meal in cold water, and then stirring it into that which is boiling; salt, and when it is lukewarm, add yeast, and as much flour as there is common meal; bake in deep dishes in an oven when risen. YANKEE BROWN BREAD.-To two quarts of corn meal, pour one quart of boiling water; stir yeast into two quarts of rye meal, and knead together with two quarts of lukewarm water. Add, if you choose, one gill of molasses or treacle. BROWN BREAD BISCUIT.-Two quarts of Indian meal; one pint of rye meal; one teacup of flour, two spoonsful of yeast, and a tablespoonful of molasses. Add a little carbonate of soda to the yeast, and let it rise over night. FRIED HASTY PUDDING.-Cut cold pudding into smooth slices, and fry brown in a little butter or pork fat. HASTY PUDDING.-Put in three pints of water and a tablespoonful of salt, and when it begins to boil stir in meal until it is thick enough for the table. Add, if you choose, sour apple chopped. Cook twenty or thirty minutes. Eaten with milk, butter, or treacle. HASTY PUDDING BREAD.-Prepare hasty pudding as before when lukewarm add yeast, and after rising, bake it in a deep dish in a hot oven. CORN MUFFINS.-Take one quart of buttermilk, three or four eggs well beaten, a small quantity of flour; mix them together, and then make it quite thick with corn meal; add a tablespoonful of melted butter, and salt to suit the taste; butter the pan in which it is baked. ; CORN MEAL PUDDING.-Scald four quarts of milk, stir into it one quart of sifted meal, one cup of molasses, a tablespoonful of salt, a little spice of any kind you like; bake it three or four hours in a pretty hot oven. BAKED PUDDING.-To two quarts of milk, add one quart of meal, a little salt, and a cup of sugar. Prepare by heating the milk over the fire, stirring it occasionally to prevent its burning; when it scarcely boils, remove it, put in the salt and sugar, and scatter in the meal, stirring rapidly to prevent its collecting into lumps; put in the nutmeg and turn into a deep pan. Bake immediately, or otherwise as may be convenient, in a hot oven, three hours. When it has baked an hour or more, pour over the pudding one gill or one half pint of milk; this will soften the crust, and form a delicious whey. BOILED PUDDING.-Into two quarts of meal, stir three pints of boiling water, some salt, and a gill of molasses or treacle; spice or not as you choose. Tie up in a strong cloth or pudding boiler, put into boiling water, and cook over a steady fire for three hours. SUPERIOR BOILED PUDDING.-To one quart of Indian meal, add three pints of hot milk, half a pint of molasses or treacle, a dessert spoonful of salt, an ounce or more of beef suet shred fine. Stir the materials well together, tie them in a cloth, allowing room for the pudding to swell one-eighth larger, and boil it six or eight hours. The longer it boils the better. It may be made without suet. INDIAN DUMPLINGS.-Into one quart of meal, stir one pint of boiling water with salt. Wet the hands in cold water, and make them into smooth balls, two or three inches in diameter. Immerse in boiling water, and cook over a steady fire twenty or thirty minutes. If you choose, put a few berries, a peach, or part of an apple, in the centre of each dumpling. SUPERIOR DUMPLINGS.-To one pint of sour milk with carbonate of soda, add one quart of meal and a large spoonful of flour; roll out with flour and put in apple, and cook as before. GREEN CORN PUDDING.-Take cighteen ears of green corn; split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp knife, then with a case knife scrape the corn from the cob, leaving the hulls on the cob; mix it with three or four quarts of rich sweet milk; add four eggs well beaten; two tablespoonsful of sugar; salt to the taste; bake it three hours. To be eaten hot, with butter. HOMONY.-This article is considered a great delicacy throughout the Southern States, and is seen on almost every breakfast table. It is prepared thus :-The corn must be ground not quite into meal. Let the broken grains be about the size of a pin's head. Then sift the flour from it through a fine hair sieve. Next, shake the grains in the sieve, so as to make the halls or bran rise to the top, when it can be removed by the hand. The grains must then be washed in several waters, and the light articles, which rise to the surface, poured off with the water through the fingers, so as to prevent the escape of the grains. Have a pot or boiler ready on the fire with the water in it; add the grains at the rate of one pint to two pints of the water. Boil it briskly about twenty minutes, taking off the scum and occasionally stirring it. When the homony has thoroughly soaked up the water, take the boiler off the firc, cover it, and place it near, or on a less heated part of, the fire, and allow it to soak there about ten minutes. It may be eaten with milk, butter, treacle, or sugar. The flour or meal sifted out can be used to make bread or cakes. The Editor of the "Philadelphia Citizen," who contributed this receipt, remarks at the close of his note, "I know the English people will love America the more for the sake of the homony." BUCK-WHEAT CAKES.-This cheap article of food is considered a luxury throughout most of the American States, from the first of October to the first of April. During this period it is found almost every where, at breakfast, on the most frugal and the most sumptuous tables. When eaten warm, with butter, sugar, molasses, or treacle, it possesses a flavour that cannot be equalled by any other gridlecake whatever. The Buck-wheat flour, put up in small casks in Philadelphia, is the best that can be procured in America.-E. B. RECEIPT.-Mix the flour with cold water; put in a cup of yeast and a little salt; set it in a warm place over night. If it should be sour in the morning, put in a little carbonate of soda; fry them the same as any gridle cakes. Leave enough of the batter to leaven the next mess. To be eaten with butter, molasses, or sugar. Knowledge is not good merely as a means of obtaining the esteem of others; not only on account of its actual use in society; it makes its possessor happy in himself; it transforms its narrow room into a rich world about him; and by his solitary lamp he can cause God's creative riches in the world of spirits and of nature, to pass before his wondering eyes. And the world, which he under stands, wherein his thoughts live, shall become dear to him, and he will, even if poor in money, and in the love of man, find enough and more than enough. The world is full of examples which show that life is not so valuable, so rich for every one, as for the thinker. F. Bremer. THE LOVE OF GOD.-This divine love has been manifested at sundry times, and in divers manners; now in sunshine, now in cloud, now in tempest; but, like the sun, whose urns of light it filled. and ever supplies, it still shines on in the pure lustre of its own heaven, a beacon for humanity, and a light to enlighten and mark out the pathway of Almighty Providence. But as one star differeth from another star in glory, and the brightness of one day outshines that of another, so the displays of God's love, while they have ever been the same in kind, have differed greatly in degree. The highest and fullest manifestation of God's love was in the sending of his Son for the redemption of the world (Heb. i. 1, 2. John iii. 16. Rom. v. 8. 1 John iii. 11; iv. 10). This love of God to the world had a respect primarily to the Son (John v. 20; x. 17; xvii. 24), since it could be communicated to man, only through a being who had himself been the object of the divine love, and had become filled with its holy and benign influence. Love may be imparted, but cannot be taught. You cannot instruct men in love, as you instruct them in letters or geometry. A loving heart is the only promoter of love. Affection has a language of its own. It is in its nature, enkindling. Love works by sympathy. Therefore, Jesus, who was to be the bearer of God's love to man, first received of its fulness. In consequence of the Father's loving the Son, he showed him all things that himself did; for love establishes an infallible medium of communication between two beings; and Jesus was fitted for his high office of making God known to man, in consequence of being, in his Father's bosom, an object of his special complacency, and a recipient of his choicest gifts (John i. 18). The Saviour, when thus he had received the spirit without measure, was furnished with all requisite means for being a faithful and merciful high priest to man, to whom he could, in consequence, communicate the divine charities of his own breast. And thus the scheme of salvation was adapted to bring about that union which our Lord prayed might be common to his disciples, his Father, and himself (John xvii. 21-23).-The People's Dictionary of the Bible. CHILDREN UNDER THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION.-The general spirit of the Mosaic code in regard to children is mild, considerate, and wise, bearing a comparison very favourable for itself with the laws and usages of other ancient nations; nor can its excellence be accounted for on the supposition that the Hebrews stood low in the scale of civilisation, nor on any thing which excludes the special aid of the great Source of light and goodness. The tone which prevails in the Biblical writings respecting the happiness of having a numerous family, has for its support and justification essential and ineradicable principles of human nature. A numerous is very frequently a happy family. A single is generally a selfish child. The ; discipline of home is best conducted on a somewhat large scale and if much striving and much self-denial are necessary on the part, especially of the parents, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, they have their reward' in the fresh and perennial fountain of love which every successive child calls up in the heart, and in the habits of self-command, industry, and perseverance, which the supply of family wants can scarcely fail to occasion. A most unhappy state of society must that be, which makes a parent's strength unequal to his day, and converts into a crushing burden what God intended to be the solace of life and the reward of virtue. In the Bible, however, we find a state of society different from our own, in regard to the means of subsistence. The population in Palestine must, indeed, especially at certain eras, have been very abundant. But the land was productive. It was fully and well cultivated. Its riches were divided with some regard to equality. And though the imposts for the service of religion were large, yet civil taxation was light, and did not clog the wheels of production; while a variety of laws aud regulations showed especial favour to the poor. Then, less food, and food of a lighter and less expensive kind, was necessary. The same was true of clothing. Nor were the spontaneous fruits of the earth inconsiderable. Under these circumstances, the bringing-up of a numerous offspring was far less burdensome than it is with us. We may find in Egypt an exemplification of these remarks, where, as in Palestine, the mode of life among the great body of the people was simple, inartificial, free from the lust of gain, and less agitated by the desire to rise to social distinction.-The People's Dictionary of the Bible. POETRY. CHRIST THE ONLY SOURCE OF TRUE SATISFACTION. "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of Eternal Life John vi. 68." Saviour to thee I come! Earth cannot fill the spirit's strong desire Pleasure in vain I sought, Where riot o'er the hours of darkness reigns, Ambition's trumpet call I heard, and basted in her train to stand, |
