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Corn Dodgers

From Kentucky receipt book, 1903

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1903. 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 Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon salt, 3 eggs. Scald meal with a little boiling water, add salt, beaten yolks, milk, butter melted, frothed whites. Put bread in a greased pan and bake in a slow oven. Oracklin Bread. One quart of commeal, ^ pint cracklins, mashed fine, % tea- spoon salt, mix with fresh buttermilk or lukewarm water. Bake in pan in hot oven or make in oval cakes and bake on a greased griddle. Com Muflbis. One pint of cprnmeal, 1 teacup buttermilk, 1 light tablespoon lard, 1 tablespoon sifted flour, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon salt, % tea- spoon soda. Beat yolks light, add milk, reserving some to dissolve soda, meal, lard, then soda and stiffly beaten white. Bake in hot greased muffin rings or in pan. Flour may be substituted for meal and prepared in same way. Spoon Bread. Have one pint of mush tolerably soft and add to it 2 well^beaten eggs, lump of butter size of a walnut and 1 teacup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of salt ; add more milk if the batter is not thin enough ; cook about 2 hours. Orits Cakes. Have one pint of cold grits, add to it 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 table- spoon of butter, 1^ tablespoons of sifted flour, 1 pint of sweet milk, salt to taste ; add whites last and bake on a hot griddle. Com Bread. One pint of meal sifted, 1 tablespoon of melted butter, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 pint of buttermilk. Beat 3 eggs light and add them to meal. Stir well, then put in butter and salt, add buttermilk with soda dissolved in it. Mix and bake quickly. Breakfast Buns. Two coffee cups of flour, % cup of cornmeal, a small half cup of melted butter, % cup sugar, 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, 3 teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in muffin rings in hot oven 20 minutes. Bice Bread. One coffee cup of cold boiled rice, butter the size of an egg, 1 pint of cream or milk, 2 eggs beaten separately, 1 handful of meal, 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook in a quick oven. 118 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. Commeal Fritters. One pint sour cream, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon molasses or sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 handful flour, enough cornmeal for a stiflf batter, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little warm water. Fry on a griddle. Eye flour may be substituted for cornmeal. Com Dodgers/. One pint of cornmeal, 1 teaspoon cold lard, 1 teaspoon salt, mix with water and sweet milk in equal proportion
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