The true way is, to take their sour milk or butter-milk, and stir meal into it till a thin batter is formed, and then dissolve their saleratus or soda, and stir that quickly and thoroughly into the batter, and then hastily add meal till the batter or dough is brought into the consistency desired. If, instead of sour milk or butter-milk, a solution of muriatic or tartaric acid is used, the bread will be equally light. In this case, the batter should be first made with a solution of saleratus or soda, and then the solution of acid should be stirred in as above described. Batter cakes are made in this manner very light and very promptly. When from any cause batter or dough mixed with yeast fails to rise according to expectations, the thorough mixing in, first the solution of muriatic or tartaric acid, and then the solution of saleratus or soda, will, in a few minutes, make the whole mass very light; but such cakes and bread are not so sweet and savory as those raised with good sweet yeast. I have said that recently ground meal makes far sweeter and richer bread, than that which has been ground a considerable time; but as it is not convenient for many families to send to a mill as often as they would like to have fresh meal, they are obliged generally to use staler meal or flour than they would choose. Yet every family might easily be furnished with a modern patent hand-mill, constructed after the plan of a coffee mill, with which they could at all times, with great ease, grind their wheat, and rice, and corn, as they want it, for bread and other purposes. With these mills they can grind their stuff as finely or coarsely as they wish, for bread or hominy, and always have it very fresh and sweet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIGHT & STEARNS, PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS, 1 Cornhill, Facing Washington Street, BOSTON, Keep constantly on hand a general assortment of SCHOOL, THEOLOGICAL and MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, for sale on the most reasonable terms, at wholesale and retail—together with a good assortment of STATIONARY. Among the works published by them, they would ask particular attention to the following: ------- DR. ALCOTT’S WORKS. We have made arrangements to publish a regular series of works by DR. ALCOTT, of which these are a part: THE YOUNG MOTHER, OR THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. _Second Edition—Embellished by a Vignette._ BY DR. WM. A. ALCOTT.