Old East Hampton Corn Bread

Two cups Indian, one cup wheat;

One cup sour milk, one cup sweet;

One good egg that well you beat; half cup molasses, too;

Half cup sugar add thereto.

With one spoon butter new;

Salt and soda each a spoon;

Mix up quickly and bake it soon.

Then you'll have corn bread complete,

Best of all corn bread you meet,

If you have a dozen boys

To increase your household joys,

Double then this rule, I should,

And you'll have two corn cakes good.

When you've nothing in for tea

This the very thing will be.

All the men that I have seen

Say it is of all cakes queen -

Good enough for any king

That a husband home may bring;

Warming up the human stove,

Cheering up the hearts you love;

And only Tyndall can explain

The links between corn and brain.

Get a husband what he likes

And save a hundred household strikes.