Corn Gems

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls of corn meal
• One cupful of flour
• Two table-spoonfuls of butter
• Three eggs
• One cupful of cold sweet milk
• One cupful of boiling sweet milk
• Two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder
• One tea-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Place the corn meal in a mixing-bowl, put the butter in the center, and pour over it the boiling milk.

2. 2

   Stir well, and add the cold milk, the eggs, well beaten, the salt, and the flour, in which the baking powder has been well mixed.

3. 3

   Stir well to mix thoroughly.

4. 4

   Bake thirty minutes in well oiled and heated gem-pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CORN GEMS. The following quantities will make two dozen gems : Two cupfuls of corn meal. One cupful of flour. Two table-spoonfuls of butter. Three eggs. One cupful of cold sweet milk. One cupful 01 boiling sweet milk. Two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. One tea-spoonful of salt

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