Recipe for an Ash-Cake
Take a lot of water and add to it a lot of coarse Indian-meal
and about a quarter of a lot of salt. Mix well together, knead
into the form of a "pone," and let the pone stand awhile,—not on
its edge, but the other way. Rake away
a place among the embers, lay it there,
and cover it an inch deep with hot ashes. When it
is done, remove it; blow off all the ashes but one layer;
butter that one and eat.
N.B.,—No household should ever be without this talisman.
It has been noticed that tramps never return for another
ash-cake.
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