Southern Batter-Bread or Egg-Bread. Maltese Cross
2 cups white Indian meal.
1 cup cold boiled rice.
3 eggs, well beaten.
1 table-spoonful melted butter.
2½ cups milk, or enough for soft batter.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
A pinch of soda.
Stir the beaten eggs into the milk; the meal, salt, butter, last of all the rice. Beat up well from the bottom for two or three minutes, and bake quickly in a round, shallow pan.