BUCKWHEAT CAKES

Ingredients:

One cake yeast
One coffee-cup cornmeal
Two coffee-cups buckwheat
One teaspoonful salt
One quart tepid water.

Procedure:
Before cooking, add four tablespoonfuls milk and two of molasses in which you have stirred a teaspoonful of soda.

BOSTON BROWN BREAD

Ingredients:

One level pint cornmeal scalded
One level tablespoonful salt
One cup New Orleans molasses
Two teaspoonfuls soda over which pour a little boiling water
One pint sour milk

Procedure:
Put half the soda in the molasses and the remainder in the milk. Stiffen with Graham flour. Steam four hours, and brown in oven for about fifteen minutes.

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS: Recipe

Ingredients:

Two cups flour
Two teaspoonfuls baking powder
One-half teaspoonful salt
Two tablespoonfuls butter
Milk enough to make soft dough.

Procedure:
Mix dry ingredients, chop in butter, add milk, mixing all the while with a wooden paddle or knife. Toss on a small floured board, roll lightly to one-half inch in thickness. Shape with cutter. Place on a buttered pan and bake [...]

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

Ingredients:

Two cups flour
Two teaspoonfuls baking powder
One-half teaspoonful salt
Two tablespoonfuls lard
A little sugar if desired
One-half cup milk or water, milk preferred.

Procedure:
Mix flour, salt, sugar and baking powder well with fork; add milk. When well mixed, drop in small quantities onto buttered pans. Bake eight minutes in moderate oven.

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Quinoline Synthesis

Prepared by H. T. CLARKE and ANNE W. DAVIS. Checked by ROGER ADAMS and A. W. SLOAN.
1. Procedure
IN a 5-l. round-bottom flask, fitted with an efficient reflux condenser of wide bore, are placed, in the following order, 80 g. of powdered crystalline ferrous sulfate, 865 g. of glycerol (c. p.), 218 g. of aniline, 170 [...]

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Prepared by W. A. NOYES and P. K. PORTER. Checked by H. T. CLARKE and J. H. BISHOP.
1. Procedure
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