Clabber Batter Cakes
From Cooking for profit, 1886
Serves 4
These are quick and easy to make.
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Clabber Batter Cakes. About the easiest, quickest made and best batter cakes, are made with only four ingredients, viz-, '^clabber," or milk curdled by souring, flour, soda and salt. Take a little sifted flour in a pan, add the "clabber" until it can be stirred to the proper consistency to bake on a griddle, then a'dd a little salt and soda. There is no measure to give only that in a general way 2 cups of sour milk needs i teaspoon of soda.
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