ead.=--Take from the oven an ordinary loaf of bread when it is
about _half baked_, and with the fingers, _while it is yet hot_, pull it
apart in egg-sized pieces of irregular shape; throw them upon tins, and
bake them in a slow oven to a rich brown color. This bread is excellent
to eat with cheese or wine. An ordinary sized loaf, costing about three
cents makes a large panful.

=Bread made with Baking Powder.=--Where bread is made with baking powder
the following rules should be closely observed: if any shortening be
used, it should be rubbed into the flour before it is wet; _cold_ water
or sweet milk should always be used to wet it, and the dough should be
kneaded immediately, and only long enough to thoroughly mix it and form
it in the desired shape; it should then be placed in a well-heated oven
and baked quickly--otherwise the carbonic acid gas will escape before
the expanded cells are fixed in the bread, and thus the lightness of the
loaf will be impaired.

=Breakfast Rolls.=--Mix well by sifting together half a pound of flour,
(cost two cents,) a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, a level
teaspoonful of salt, and a heaping teaspoonful of sugar, (cost one
cent;) rub into a little of the above one ounce of lard, (cost one
cent,) mix it with the rest of the flour, and quickly wet it up with
enough cold milk to enable you to roll it out about half an inch thick,
(cost two cents;) cut out the dough with a tin shape or with a sharp
knife, in the form of diamonds, lightly wet the top with water, and
double them half over. Put them upon a tin, buttered and warmed, and
bake them in a hot oven. This receipt will cost about six cents, and
will make about nine good sized rolls.

=Tea Biscuit.=--Mix as above, using the same proportions, and cutting out
with a biscuit-cutter; when they are baked, wash them over with cold
milk, and return them to the oven for a moment to dry. The cost is the
same.

=Macaroni.=--This is a paste made from the purest wheat flour and water;
it is generally known as a rather luxurious dish among the wealthy; but
it should become one of the chief foods of the people, for it contains
more gluten, or the nutritious portion of wheat, than bread. It is one
of the most wholesome and economical of foods, and can be varied so as
to give a succession of palatable dishes at a very small cost. The
imported macaroni can be bought at Italian stores for about fifteen
cents a pound; and that quantity when bo