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Another improvement was “corn pone,” baked in the form of a loaf, in a large iron oven or “bake kettle,” and sometimes four or five inches thick. After it cooled it was cut into slices and served very much after the style of the j wheat flour loaves of a more recent period. Mush, or “hasty pudding,” was another article of luxury, especially when there was a sufficiency of milk on hand to make the evening meal attractive.COOKING FURNITURE.Before the invention of cooking stoves, or at least, before their introduction into the cabins of the backwoods settlers, the process of cooking observed by ourpioneer mothers of our own county, especially, and of first settlers generally— were so radically different from those known at the present day, that a reference to them would, no doubt, be at once a source of surprise and amusement to those of more modern habits and experiences.The reader has already been made acquainted with the kind and dimensions of the fire places generally found in the early cabins of Cass county; hence, a recurrence to them at this time is unnecessary for the purpose in hand. One of JlthC; fixtures of these fire-places was a
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Logansport Daily Star
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 02, 1875
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