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Pour this into a buttered earthen dish; bake in a quick oven, and serve at once.
In all cases where cheese disagrees it will be found that the bi-carbonate of potash renders it harmless. TO BOIL OATMEAL OR CRUSHED WHEAT. Have ready a quart of boiling water in a farina-boiler, or use a small pail set in a saucepan of boiling water.
If oatmeal or any grain is boiled in a single saucepan, it forms, no matter how often it is stirred, a thick crust on the bottom; and, as _never to stir_ is a cardinal rule for all these preparations, let the next one be, a double boiler. Add a teaspoonful of salt to the quart of water in the inside boiler.
Be sure it is boiling, and then throw in one even cup of oatmeal or crushed wheat.
Now _let it alone_ for two hours, only being sure that the water in the outside saucepan does not dry away, but boils steadily.
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