2 heaping cups of Indian meal.
1 cup of flour.
3 eggs.
2½ cups milk.
1 tablespoonful lard.
2 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
1 teaspoonful soda.
2 tablespoonfuls cream-tartar.
1 tablespoonful salt.
Beat the eggs very thoroughly—whites and yolks separately—melt the
lard, sift the cream-tartar and soda into the meal and flour while
yet dry, and stir this in at the last. Then, to borrow the direction
scribbled by a rattle-tongued girl upon the above receipt, when she
sent it to me—“_beat like mad!_” Bake quickly and steadily in a
buttered mould. Half an hour will usually suffice. In cutting corn
bread _hold the knife perpendicularly_ and cut toward you.