Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients

• two cups of buckwheat flour
• one pint warm water
• one teaspoon of salt
• one-half cup yeast

Method

1. 1

   Beat well and stand in a warm place twenty-four hours.

2. 2

   Dissolve one-half teaspoon, or less at first, of saleratus, in water enough to make the batter as thin as you can turn them, and bake brown and dry.

3. 3

   Beat thoroughly, bake on a hot griddle.

4. 4

   Leave a cup of this batter in jar to start the next with.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buckwheat Cakes. Get buckwheat free from grit. It is also adulter- ated with rye. Into one pint warm water put one tea- spoon of salt, two cups of buckwheat flour, and one- half cup yeast. Beat well and stand in a warm place twenty-four hours. Dissolve one-half teaspoon, or less at first, of saleratus, in water enough to make the bat- ter as thin as you can turn them, and bake brown and dry. Beat thoroughly, bake on a hot griddle. Leave a cup, of this batter in jar to start the next with. I bake every other morning, stirring up over night. After The Queen Cook Book 23 the first time» they will need a full teaspoon of sale- ratus to make sufficiently sweet. Stir up entirely new ones with new yeast every three weeks. Bread Griddle Cakes. One pint bread crumbs soaked in milk over night. Rub through a colander, add two well beaten eggs, a teaspoon salt, a cup of flour, with just milk enough to make a thin batter. Teaspoon baking-powder sifted in flour. Rice Griddle Cakes. These are made the same way as the bread griddle cakes, using the rice boiled to a jell and hot, instead of bread. Or use rice flour. Sweet Corn Griddle Cake^. I pint grated com i teaspoon salt I cup flour Milk enough to mix well I tablespoon melted butter i teaspoon baking-powder 4 eggs Flour Griddle Cakes. Sift two teaspoons of baking powder into one pint of flour. Stir in one cup of sweet cream, and milk enough to make a thin batter with two beaten eggs. One teaspoon of salt

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