Corn Bread

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonsful of fat
• 1 tablespoonful sugar
• 1/2 teaspoonful salt
• 1 1/2 cupsful sour milk
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 1 1/2 cupsful cornmeal
• 1 1/2 cupsful flour

Method

1. 1

   Mix fat, sugar, and salt until smooth.

2. 2

   Add sour milk with soda and stir.

3. 3

   Sift baking powder with flour, then add to the mixture along with cornmeal.

4. 4

   Grease a baking pan and pour in the dough, spreading evenly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The junior cook book (1920) by Clara Ingram Judson, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

, 1 teaspoonful salt, Y_> tea spoonful soda In a saucepan and cook over a slow fire till it bubbles up. Stir 3 or 4 times and remove from fire. Dissolve V-^ teaspoonful soda in 1 pint (2 cupsful) of sour milk or butter- Biilk. Stir till foamy. Add this to the molasses and stir 3 or 4 times. Sift 1 y^ cupsful of flour with 1 teaspoonful baking powder and spread on a plate. Put 1 cupful of raisins (seeded) on this plate and with a fork, toss till all the raisins are cov- ered with flour. Grease 2 bread tins; cut papers to fit the bot- toms; grease papers. Note that the grease should be both above and below the paper. The best way of greasing a pan is to apply the grease, or oil, with a brush kept for that pur- 99 BROWN BREAD pose. If there is no brush at hand use a clean bit of yellow paper on which there is no printing. If greasing is done right tho. hands can be kept tidy and clean. Put V/4 cupsful of bran 1 cupful of commeal into the molasses and milk and stir. Add the flour and raisins and beat well. Pour the dough (which will look rather thin) into the two pans, dividing equally. Bake in rather slow oven for 50 minutes. T)o not cut till cold. This broad is fine for sandwiches as well as for serving plain. 101 CORN BREAD Mix together 2 tablespoonsful of fat (lard, vegetable oil or meat drippings will make good corn bread), 1 tablespoonful sugar, y2 teaspoonful salt, 1 Ofrcr Boat till smootl). Measure out 1 1/. cupsful sour milk or butter- milk. Add Vii teaspoonful soda to the milk and stir till foamy. Pour this onto the first mixture and stir lightly. Sift 1 teaspoonful baking powder with I'/j cupsful flour. Add this flour and 11/2 cupsful conimeal

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.