n and experience, the candle-berries or bayberries,
can be melted in hot water, the same as honey-comb, and the wax strained
away from the seedy residue, then allowed to cool, on top the water, and
clarified by a further melting and cooling over water. Mixed with
paraffine it can be molded into real bayberry candles, ever so much more
odorous than those of commerce. It is well to remember in buying
paraffine that there are three qualities of it, differing mainly in the
degree of heat at which they melt. Choose that which is hardest to melt
for candle-making. One might indeed, experiment with bayberry wax, and
the drippings of plain paraffine candles, before undertaking
candle-making to any considerable extent.

A last word. If any incline to challenge things here set forth, will
they please remember that as one star differs from another in glory, so
does one family, one region, differ from all others in its manners of
eating, drinking, and cooking. I have written true things, but make no
claim that they apply all over. Indeed there may be those to whom they
will seem a transversing of wisdom and experience. To all such I say,
try them intelligently, with pains and patience, and of the results,
hold fast to that you find good.

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INDEX

BACON
Hogs to Choose, 40
Chilling, 40
Cutting up, 40
Salting, 42
Curing, 45
Smoke, 45
Smoke Houses, 46
Smoke Hogshead, 48
Time of Smoking, 49
Keeping, 50
Lard Rendering, 50
Sausage, 52
Souse, 53
Hog's Foot Oil and Jelly, 54
Brains, Pickled, 55
Souse, Pickled, 55
Hog's Feet Fried, 55
Backbone, Stew and Pie, 56
Keeping Sausage, 57

BREADS
Flour and Meal, 26
Mixing, 28
Beaten Biscuit, 28
Soda Biscuit, 30
Salt Rising Bread, 31
Sweet Potato Biscuit, 32
Waffles, 33
Corn Bread, Plain, 34
Egg Bread, 35
Batter Cakes, 35
Ash Cake, 36
Mush Bread, 36
Cracklin' Bread, 37
Pumpkin Bread, 37
Mush Batter Cakes, 38
Wafers, 38
Nut Bread, 219

CAKES
Secret of Success, 136
Mixing