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Heat 1 quart of milk 2 teaspoonsful of cocoa

Mix the cocoa and a little of the warm milk to let it melt, and then mix all together, keeping it on a slow fire.

OATMEAL FOR THREE PERSONS

Boil fifteen minutes.

Many of these recipes are given for three persons. For a smaller or larger number decrease or increase ingredients in proper proportion.

CORN MEAL FOR THREE PERSONS

Boil fifteen minutes.

HOMINY FOR THREE PERSONS

In the morning, boil fifteen or twenty minutes in a quart of hot water, and a pinch of salt.

BOILED RICE FOR THREE PERSONS

Boil for fifteen minutes. Wash rice first.

MACARONI FOR THREE PERSONS

Break into inch pieces a cup full of macaroni, and cover with boiling water in a saucepan. Add a little salt, and cook until soft . Keep covered with water while boiling.

MACARONI AND CHEESE

If you have an oven, take a pan or dish that can be put into the oven. Put in a layer of boiled macaroni, some pieces of cheese, a little mustard and salt, and a little butter. Then more macaroni and the other things, until your dish is full. Fill the dish with milk, and bake in a slow oven for half an hour. Put cheese on the top before baking.

FRIED POTATOES AND ONIONS

Slice some cooked or uncooked potatoes and slice some onions. Put into a hot frying pan with fat, salt pork or bacon, and cook till soft and brown.

SCRAMBLED EGGS

Put butter, or fat, or bacon or salt pork in the frying pan . When hot, stir in the eggs, which have been broken into a bowl and beaten, adding a little milk , salt and pepper.

FRIED EGGS AND BACON

Put on the frying pan. When it is hot, put in the bacon. Cook for about 3 minutes, and put on a dish.

Then break one egg at a time in a saucer and put into the hot frying pan, with the grease in it. You can put in as many eggs as there is room for. Cook for two or three minutes.

BOILED EGGS

Boil in boiling water for 3 minutes for soft boiled.

Boil in boiling water for 5 minutes for hard boiled.

BAKING POWDER BISCUIT

Mix the dry ingredients as well as you can with a spoon, then add the milk and water. Roll out and cut into biscuits, and bake about ten minutes in medium hot oven.

MUFFINS

Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Beat the egg and add to milk. Then add the flour and melted butter. Bake in a moderate oven.

FRIED CRACKER OR HARD BREAD

Dip the hard bread into cold water for a minute or two, not to get too soft. Then fry in a hot frying pan in butter or bacon.

FRIED RICE FOR THREE PERSONS

Soak a cupful of rice over night.

In the morning, put rice in the frying pan with some bacon and cook till soft.

RICE GRIDDLE CAKES

When the griddle or pan is hot, fry the cakes in salt pork dripping or lard, drop a spoonful at the time. These are good rice cakes.

FRIED CORN MEAL MUSH OR HOMINY

When corn meal or hominy has been boiled and cooled, cut into slices and fry in bacon, salt pork or lard. Only one of a kind is needed to fry with.

FLAP JACKS

Mix this thoroughly

Add enough water to make a batter that will drop freely from the spoon. Add a pinch of salt and two pinches of sugar.

Cook in hot frying pan, well greased, for five or seven minutes and then turn with a quick toss and cook the other side.

HOE CAKE can be made exactly the same as flap jacks by substituting corn meal for flour.

CREAMED COD FISH FOR THREE PERSONS

Soak the fish over night--about a pound. In the morning, boil for ten or fifteen minutes. Pour off the water and pick out the bones. Put on and stew in some milk, a little butter and a teaspoonful of flour, stirred in milk, and stir in the whole.

BAKED CANNED SALMON

Put a can of salmon in a dish to bake, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, pepper and salt, and fill up the dish with milk. Put some cracker crumbs and a little butter on the top, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

You can get cracker crumbs by rolling some hard tack with a rolling-pin. Or a bottle makes a pretty good roller on a clean board if you have no bread board.

FRIED FISH

Wash and clean the fish , and cover with a little flour and a little salt and pepper. Put into a hot frying-pan, with some fat, salt pork or bacon, and cook one side till brown, and then the other side.

MEAT STEW

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