Randolph, Virginia

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Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Put a large spoonful of butter in a quart of hot water.
Wet your corn meal with cold water in a bowl.
Add some salt and make it quite smooth.
Then put it in the buttered water when it is hot.
Let it boil, stirring it continually until done.
As soon as you can handle it make it into a ball and let it stand until cold.
Then cut it in thin slices, lay them in the bottom of a deep dish so as to cover it, put on it slices of cheese, then bits of butter, then mush, then cheese, then butter until the dish is full.
Bake in quick oven for 20 or 30 minutes.
Cheese and butter should be on top.