Gems

Pt. flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, tablespoon of sugar, little?alt, tablespoon butter or shortening. Mix up and drop into gem pans. Put in 1 egg, flour first, then shortening and baking powder; then sugar and salt, then egg flour to make stiff; - Mrs, Frank Cook, Wheeling, 111.

Variation I

To 1/2 cup sugar add 2 tablespoons butter, 1 egg. 1 pt. milk, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, flour to mix as stiff as cake; can be cooked in baker sheet. Cut in squares or in muffin rings. - Mrs. Waldon Emmery, Glencoe, 111.

Bran Gems

Cream together butter size of an egg, 3/4 cup brown sugar or 1/2 cup white sugar; add 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup flour, 2 cups bran, a little salt, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in warm water, 1 cup currants. Bake about 20 minutes. - Mrs. Klug, 25 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.

Variation I

2 cups bran, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda; beat 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar and 2 eggs together; then add the 1 1/2 cups sour milk and i and last the soda sifted in the flour. -

Mrs. Chas. Eggleson, Wheeling, 111.

Cornmeal Gems

Beat together 1 egg, 1 1/2 cups milk, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Then mix 1 cup corn-meal and 1/2 cup flour, adding a little at a time, beat well for at least 5 minutes; then add the stiffly beaten whites of egg, and bake in gem pans in moderate oven. - Mrs. Ella Fairchild, Palatine, 111.

Ginger Gems

Mix together 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour cream, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon ginger, 2 1/2 cups flour, a little salt; bake in patty-pan tins. - Mrs. Chas. Ellis, Winnetka. 111.

Honey Gems

To 2 qts. flour add 3 tablespoons melted lard, 3/4 pt. honey, 1/2 pt. molasses, 4 'heaping teaspoons brown sugar, 1 1/2 level tablespoons soda, 1 level teaspoon salt, 1/3 pt. water, 1/2 teaspoon extract vanilla. - Mrs. C. C. Cleveland, Bartlett, 111.

Oatmeal Gems

To 1 cup cold water and 1 cup sour milk add 2 1/2 cups fine oatmeal, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon soda. - Mrs. D. O. Dooley, Bensen, 111.

Rye Gems

Mix together 1 cup .of cornmeal and 1 cup of rye. Stir into the mixed meal 1 1/2 cups ice water. Beat the latter vigorously for 10 or 15 minutes, then turn into hot irons and bake. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 No. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.

Entire Wheat Gems

2 cups of whole wheat flour, 1 pinch of salt, 1 piece of butter size of an egg, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Beat for 1 minute and bake in gem pans for 1/2 hr. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, 111.

Jolly Boys

Mix together thoroughly 1 1/2 pts. of ryemeal, 1/2 pt. of flour, 1/2 cup of cornmeal, 2 pinches of cinnamon, a little salt, and 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Add 1 well-beaten egg; 2 tablespoons each of molasses and sugar, and enough cold water to make a thick batter. Fry in hot lard 1 heaping tablespoon at a time and cook until well browned. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, 111.