Corn Cake

Ingredients

• one tablespoon sugar
• one egg beaten five minutes
• one cup milk
• one cup Indian meal
• one cup flour
• two teaspoons cream of tartar
• one teaspoon baking soda, dissolve in a little hot water

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corn Cake One cup Indian meal, one-half cup flour, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons of baking powder, one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon melted butter, yolks of two eggs and white of one egg, beaten separately, one and a quarter cups milk; if desired, quantity of corn meal and flour may be reversed. Suet Johnny Cake Take one cup beef suet, chopped fine, one heaping cup maple sugar, one and a half cups Indian meal, one and one-half cups flour; mix with the flour one teaspoon baking powder. After mixing the above ingredients, add two tablespoons melted butter and one cup milk; mix thoroughly; pour into baking pan and bake in quick oven. Note — If maple sugar cannot be had, common brown sugar may be used; but to make the cake perfect there is no substitute for maple sugar. Corn Cake One quart of flour, four teaspoons of baking powder, one teacup Indian meal, two eggs, one-half cup sugar, two table- spoons butter. This makes two sheets. Corn Cake (One of the best) Two cups flour, one cup Indian meal, one-half cup sugar, two heaping teaspoons baking powder. Mix altogether thor- oughly, and rub in piece of butter the size of an egg ; add two eggs well beaten and mix up with sweet milk so that the mixture will just run. Bake at once. Rhode Island Johnny Cakes White bolted meal or corn meal (white preferred), one tea- spoon sugar, salt (use judgment as to quantity) ; scald with madly boiling water; stir it. The hot water cooks the meal and swells it; thin to the right consistency for frying with cold milk. Fry m in cakes. — Mrs. W. R. Hudson. Breakfast and Tea Cakes 37 Johnny Cake Two eggs, two tablespoons melted butter, three-quarters cup sugar, two cups corn meal, two cups flour, one teaspoon baking soda dissolved in hot water, one teaspoon salt. Southern Johnny Cake Mix one teaspoon salt with one cup white corn meal, scald it with just enough hot water to dampen it. Then add enough cold milk to form a very stiff batter (almost a dough). Stir it well and drop in cakes about three-quarters of an inch in thick- ness on a buttered pan. Bake in a hot oven for twenty-five minutes. Split open and butter while hot. Serve with syrup. Corn Cake Take one tablespoon sugar and one egg beaten five minutes, one cup milk, one cup Indian meal, one cup flour, two teaspoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon baking soda, dissolve in a little hot water

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