Southern Corn Pone

Sift a qt. of white corn-meal and add a teaspoonful of salt; pour on enough cold water to make a mixture that will squeeze easily through the fingers. Work to a soft dough. Mould into oblong cakes an inch thick at the ends, and a little thicker in the centre. Slap them down on the pan and press them a little to show the marks of the fingers. Bake in a hot oven 20 minutes.

Bread Dumplings

Soak stale bread in cold water for 15 minutes, then squeeze as dry as possible. To each pt. add 2 tablespoonfuls of milk, 1 well beaten egg, 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, 1/2 of a teaspoonful of salt and the same of sugar and sufficient flour to make of such consistence that the mixture will not fall apart when a small spoonful is dropped into boiling water. Have the water slightly salted and boiling hard. Test a spoonful of the mixture. When of the right consistency drop a number of spoonfuls at a time into the water and cook for 5 minutes. Lift out with a skimmer and arrange in a dish, keeping them hot over water until all are done.

Lunch Sandwiches

Butter slightly, slices of white bread. Chop fine four stalks of celery, and the same quantity of cold meat. Make a mayonnaise dressing, stir it into the meat and celery, spread on the bread; put a plain slice of bread and butter on top.

Chestnut Soup

Peel 1 qt. of large chestnuts and blanch them in hot water. Drain and rub off the inner skin and cook until tender in good stock, drain and rub them through a fine sieve. Add more stock and season with mace, cayenne and salt, and stir until it boils, then add 1/4 of a pint of cream. Serve at once.