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 INDIAN BATTER CAKES.

Make the milk quite warm, and then put into it the yeast and salt, stirring them well. Beat the eggs, and stir them into the mixture. Then, gradually, stir in the flour and indian meal.

Cover tile batter, and set it to rise four or five hours. Or if the weather is cold, and you want the cakes for breakfast, you may mix the batter late the night before. Should you find it sour in the morning, dissolve a small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash in as much water as will cover it, and stir it into the batter, letting it sit afterwards at least half an hour. This will take the acid.

Grease your baking-iron, and pour on it a ladle-full of the batter. When brown on one sides turn the cake om the other.