Corn Gems

Ingredients

• Dissolve one cake of compressed yeast
• in one pint of lukewarm water
• stir in one and one-half pints wheaten flour
• one-half cup of sugar
• two eggs
• one teaspoonful of salt
• Pour one pint of boiling milk

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve yeast in water, mix with flour, sugar, eggs, and salt.

2. 2

   Pour boiling milk over meal, cool, mix, and bake in gem pans.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Common sense recipe book (1898) by Sarah Allen, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CORN GEMS: Dissolve one cake of compressed yeast in one pint of luke- warm water, and stir.in one and one-half pints wheaten flour. Let rise until light—about one and one-half hours—and then rub together one-half cup of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of butter, two-eggs, and one teaspoonful of salt. Pour one pint of boiling milk on one large quart of yellow meal, let cool, mix in with “When completely worn out, VIN MARIANI gives fresh strength."—Sir Augustus Harris. 201 ADIES, if you think of BUYING A PIANO of any description get quotations from W.H, LEACH, 49 METCALFE ST.., Who sells cheap, having small expenses and no agents. above, and put in well-greased gem pans. Let stand ten or fifteen minutes, and bake in hot oven about ten or fifteen min- * utes. Makes two and one-half dozen. If made over night, pour one and one-half pints of boiling milk on the meal, let cool, mix in the other ingredients, and let stand until morning; then add one-half pint of warm milk, and put in gem pans, etc., as” before. CORN-MEAL*FLAP-JACKS. Dissolve a yeast cake in a quart of lukewarm milk. Add two and a half cupfuls of Indian meal, the same quantity of sifted flour and a little salt. In the morning stir in two eggs

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