Batter Oakes

Ingredients

• two pints of flour
• three eggs
• one even teaspoon of soda
• one teaspoon of melted butter
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Place the flour in a saucepan, and with a handle, easier to manage.

2. 2

   Separate the whites and the yolks of the eggs and add the yolks, without beating, to the flour, then stir in the buttermilk, mixing slowly.

3. 3

   When half mixed, drop in the melted butter and beat the mixture hard and smooth.

4. 4

   Add more buttermilk, finishing it by leaving the batter rather thick, as the whites of the eggs will thin it still more.

5. 5

   Then add the soda, dissolved in cold water, and lastly the beaten whites.

6. 6

   Take out the spoon and stir in by lightly beating the whites in the batter with a fork.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 201. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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