Clam Cakes

Ingredients

• two heaping teaspoons baking powder
• a quart flour
• one pint milk
• one pint liquor from canned clams
• a tablespoon syrup
• little salt
• four tablespoons melted butter
• well-beaten yolks of ten eggs
• two-pound cans of chopped clams

Method

1. 1

   Sift baking powder with flour, make a batter with milk and clam liquor, add syrup, salt, butter, and egg yolks.

2. 2

   Stir in chopped clams and bake as other griddle cakes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 286. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Clam Cakes. — Sift two heaping teaspoons baking powder with a quart flour and jnake a batter with one pint milk and one pint liauor from canned clams, adding a tablespoon Qyrup, little salt, four taolespoons melted butter, and well-beaten yolks of ten eggs. Stir in two-pound cans of chopped clams

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