The success of making and baking this delicacy depends entirely upon a thorough beating of the batter and a hot oven.  The southern mammy invariably uses the coarse white oatmeal, but you may use the yellow and obtain just as good results.

Place one quart of boiling water in a saucepan and then add one teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of shortening and one and one-half cupfuls of cornmeal.  Pour the meal in slowly, and just as soon as it boils remove from the fire and let cool.  Now add

  Yolk of two eggs,
  Two cupfuls of sour milk,
  One cupful flour.

in which you have dissolved one level teaspoonful of baking soda and one-half cupful of syrup.

Beat this mixture with a large spoon and now cut and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs.  Pour in hot, well-greased baking dish and bake in a quick oven.

To add soda to the sour milk, dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of the milk before adding to the remainder of the milk, and then use a Dover egg-beater and beat for three minutes to thoroughly mix.

LOUISIANA CORN BREAD

Place in a mixing bowl

  One cup of cornmeal,
  One and one-quarter cups of flour,
  One teaspoon of salt,
  Five level teaspoons of baking powder,
  Two tablespoons of shortening,
  Four tablespoons of syrup,
  One egg,
  One and one-half cups of milk.

Beat hard to mix and then pour into well-greased square pans.  Bake for thirty-five minutes in a hot oven.

RICE BATTER CAKES

Place in a bowl

  One cup of cold boiled rice,
  One egg,
  One-half cup of milk,
  Three-quarters cup of flour,
  One teaspoon of salt,
  Two teaspoons of baking powder,
  One teaspoon of shortening,
  One tablespoon of syrup.

Beat to mix and then bake on a hot griddle and serve with butter and sugar.

BISCUITS

Place in a mixing bowl

  Three and one-half cups of flour,
  One teaspoon of salt,
  Three level tablespoons baking powder,
  One level tablespoonful sugar.

Sift to mix; then rub in three tablespoonfuls of shortening and mix to dough with

  One cup of milk or water.

Now work in a bowl to a smooth elastic dough, roll out three-quarters of an inch thick, cut, wash tops with milk and bake in hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes.

CURRANT BISCUITS

Add one cup of currants to sweet biscuit dough.

RAISIN BISCUITS

Add one cup of raisins to sweet biscuit dough.

COCOANUT BISCUITS

Put one cup of cocoanut through food chopper and add to sweet biscuit dough.