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194 Woodenft UmsouI for Girls the top of the flour in the sack itself. Simply spread the mouth wide open and securely level and proceed as though it were a pan. To make a small loaf of bread, put a teaspoonful of baking powder on about a pint of flour, add a lump of butter or grease as big as a walnut and a dash of salt. Mbc them together, then add about a cupful of cold water, work it into the flour that has been prepared. It will not strike into the flour below. Thoroughly work up the mass of dough and now it is ready for treatmoit as bread, twist, or as cakes. Bread Twist. Cut a smooth, round stick two or three inches through and three feet long, point one end, drive it in the ground leaning toward the fire at a place just a little hotter than you can hold your hand. Work the dough into a long roll and twist it like a vine around the stick. After ten minutes, turn the stick around in the hole, so as to give the full heat to the other side, and so on; in half an hour, the bread should be brown and finished. Cakes. Select a broad, fiat, thin stone; heat it at the fire until it is too hot for your hand to tourh; brush it clean, work the dough into cakes half an inch thick and three inches across, put thena on the flat stone and prop it up near the fire as steeply as possible, as long as they do not fall off, and roast tili pale brown all over. Mud Baking. This is used for fish and game. Clean the fo d thoroughly, enclose it in a coat of mud at least an inch thick, bury it in the ashes of the fire and keep a brisk fire on it for thirty to sixty minutes, according to the size of the meat or fi^ to be roasted. Potatoes can be baked in the ashes without any mud. Th^ take much longer than meat.