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When cooled under pressure the meat is more firm and cuts better into slices. Cabbage is usually served with hot corned beef, but should not be boiled with it. Make a dough of cornmeal and wheat flour and water. Roll it out in thin, round cakes; cook quickly in a pan that has not been greased, then roll in a cloth to keep soft and warm.

One Saturday evening after a supper of scorched cornmeal which had been none too fresh when they got it at the swindling grocer's on the street floor, Etta put on the tattered, patched old skirt at which she had been toiling. "I can't make it fit to wear," said she. "It's too far gone; I think" her eyelids fluttered "I'll go see some of the girls."

It was well on in the night when her husband returned, bearing a little "poke" of cornmeal. Then the woman flew to her post. Soon we had hot bread, three or four slices of pork, and black coffee unsweetened all there was in the house. It developed that when I arrived there was barely enough meal for the family's supper and breakfast.

Husk, in the Middle States, and in some parts of the South and West, means the bran of the cornmeal, as notably in Davy Crockett's verse: "She sifted the meal, she gimme the hus'; She baked the bread, she gimme the crus'; She b'iled the meat, she gimme the bone; She gimme a kick and sent me home." In parts of Virginia, before the war, the word husk or hus' meant the cob or spike of the corn.

Then that kind old rabbit scraped up all the cornmeal, and he put some in his big left ear and some in his big right ear, because the bag was broken, and he carried the dented butter, which wasn't hurt the least mite. Then they started for the duck pen and they reached it safely, Alice limping along as well as she could.

"Now, if Uncle Roger has swallowed any needles, maybe it would make it all right if he swallowed a pincushion." We all laughed. But Felicity soon grew sober. "It seems awful to think of eating a sawdust pudding. How on earth did you make such a mistake?" "It looked just like cornmeal," said the Story Girl, going from white to red in her shame.

Cook one cup of hominy slowly in the same water in a covered vessel for eight hours or until all the water has been absorbed by the hominy; add two tablespoons of butter, one teaspoon of salt and two tablespoons of cream and serve as a vegetable or as a cereal with sugar and cream. Take two cups of coarse cornmeal and four cups of cold water put on to boil; add one-half teaspoon of salt.

And I'll come to live with you and get you to make me some for every meal until all the cornmeal to be purchased at the American grocers' is used up!" "Indeed she can, Sally, and many things besides. Aunt Mary has initiated her into all the secrets of her trade," said Mrs. Brown.

During our first winter we lived largely on cornmeal, making a little journey of twenty miles to the nearest mill to buy it; but even at that we were better off than our neighbors, for I remember one family in our region who for an entire winter lived solely on coarse-grained yellow turnips, gratefully changing their diet to leeks when these came in the spring.

I merely marvelled at it, and while I wandered about the yard, the hired man scorched some cornmeal mush in a skillet and this with some butter and gingerbread, made up my first breakfast in Mitchell County. An hour or two later father and mother and the girls returned and the work of setting up the stove and getting the furniture in place began.