Corn Cake (thin)

Ingredients

• 1 cup yellow corn meal
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoonful salt
• 1 cup flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoonful melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix in the order given, and bake in two Washington pie tins, spreading the mixture thick enough to half fill the pan.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corn Cake (thin). 1 cup yellow corn meal. cup sugar. 3^ teaspoonful salt. 1 cup flour. 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder. 1 egg. 1 cup milk. 1 tablespoonf ul melted butter. Mix in the order given, and bake in two Washington pie tins, spreading the mixture thick enough to half fill the pan. Sponge Com Cake (Sour Milk). 1 cup flour. }4 cup corn meal. }^ teaspoonful salt. 3^ teaspoonful soda. 3^ cup sugar. Yolks of 2 eggs. White of 1 egg. 1 tablespoonf ul butter, melted. 1 cup sour milk. Bake in a shallow round pan or in a brickloaf pan. Use the other white of egg for clearing the coffee. Sponge Com Cake (Sweet Milk). 1 cup meal. }4 cup flour. }4 teaspoonful salt. )'2 teaspoonful soda. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. 1 tablespoonf ul melted butter. 1 tablespoonf ul sugar. Yolks of 2 eggs. White of 1 egg. IJ^ cup milk. Bake in brickloaf bread pan about half an hour. 92 The Boston Cook Book, Spider Corn Cake (Sour Milk). {Miss Parloa.) % cup corn meal. Flour to fill the cup. 1 tablespoonful sugar. teaspoonful salt. teaspoonful soda, scant. 1 egg. 1 cup sweet milk. ^ cup sour milk. 1 tablespoonful butter. Mix the meal, flour, sugar, salt, and soda. Beat the egg ; add half of the sweet milk, and all the sour milk. Stir this into the dry mixture. Melt the butter in a hot spider, or shallow round pan, and pour the mixture into it. Pour the other half cup of sweet milk over the top, but do not stir it in. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. Corn and Rice Muffins. 1 pint white corn meal. 1 teaspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful flour. 1 cup cold boiled rice. 1 teaspoonful soda, scant. 1 pint sour milk. 1 egg. 1 tablespoonful melted butter

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