Corn Bread (Johnny Cake)
From Household hints, 1881
You can add flour and use sugar instead of molasses.
Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one egg, one cupful of sugar, half a cupful of sweet milk, half a cupful of butter, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder ; stir all thoroughly together, and let it rise till very light ; knead it down again and let it rise, then mold into bis- cuits about the size of an egg, put them quite close to each other in the tin, and let them rise ; when very light, bake them a little longer than common biscuits, and until the top is a dark brown. Buns. — Three cups of sweet milk, one cup of yeast, one cup of sugar. Mix soft at night. In the morning add one cup of butter, part of a cup of sugar, a bit of soda ; then mix, put in the pans, and let rise till quite light. Bake same as rusks. Currants may be added if you like, and when they are, and the buns served warm, they are said to resemble closely the tea-cakes made by Mrs. Southey, 18 HOUSEHOLD HINTS, which Shelley, having once tasted them, requested his wife to serve for supper for ever after. Rolls. — One pint of scalded milk, let it cool, and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of lard, two of yeast, a little salt. In winter, mix the batter over night ; in sum- mer, mix early in the morning. When light, knead and let it rise, then add a lump of butter, and make into the de- sired shape. Bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Nice rolls may be made by taking part of your bread-sponge and adding a lump of butter. Graham Oems, — Take three teacups of water, four and a half cups of Graham flour ; beat together for five minutes. Have your gem pans hot, put in each a little bit of butter, fill the pans even full of the batter. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. This quantity will fill the pans twice. Corn Bread, or Johnny Calce, baked in geln pans is deli- cious for breakfast. Johnny cake is made by taking about two cups of meal, one ^gg, a tablespoonful of molasses, sour milk enough to mix the meal with, a teaspoonful of soda
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