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Corn Meal Griddle Cakes

From The new home cook book, 1896

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1896. 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 The new home cook book (1896), page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little salt; in the morning stir in one egg, and milk enough to make it thin enough to drop from a spoon on a tin. GOEN CAKES. E. E. Marcy. One and one-half cups of Indian meal, one-half cup fine flour, one-half of molasses, one of milk, one-half teaspoon soda, a little salt. For weak stomachs, it is an improvement to add a little ginger. GREEN CORN GKIDDLE CAKES. Mrs. C. M. Dickerman, Rockford, 111. Twelve ears corn grated, four eggs, one cup sweet milk (cream is better) ; one cup flour, three tablespoons butter, if you use milk, none if you use cream ; a little salt. Bake on a griddle. GRIDDLE CAKES. Mrs. Orson Smith. Two quarts warm water, one teaspoon salt, one cup flour, one cup corn meal, one-half teacup yeast, two eggs well beaten and added the last ; raise over night. EICE CAKES. Mrs. Lunt, Evanston. One cup soft boiled rice, add one-half cup milk, the yolks of three eggs, two tablespoons flour, a little salt; VALUABLE EECIPES. 319 then beat the whites to a stiff froth and mix with the rest. Fry on a buttered griddle as soon as possible after adding the whites of the eggs. Nice for invalids. SQUASH GRIDDLE CAKES. Mrs. Rice. One cup squash, two eggs, one and a half pints milk, salt to flavor, flour to make it of a consistency for frying; add a litde soda dissolved in milk. QUICK BUCKWHEAT CAKES. One quart of buckwheat flour, one-half a teacup of corn meal or wheat flour, a little salt, and two tablespoons of syrup. Wet these with cold or warm water to a thin bat- ter, and add lastly four good tablespoons of baking powder. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Lake Forest. One quart buckwheat flour, four tablespoons yeast, one teaspoon salt, one handful Indian meal, two tablespoons molasses, not syrup. Warm water enough to make a thin batter ; beat very well and set in a warm place. If the batter is the least sour in the morning, add a little soda. COEN MEAL GEIDDDE CAKES. Lake Forest, Soak three-fourths of a pint of meal over night in three cups of sour milk and one of sour cream ; in the morning add one pint of flour, a little salt and two eggs; soda to sweeten the mixture. 320 THE HOME COOK BOOK. CORN MEAL GEIDDLE CAKES. M. One pint of corn meal, two tablespoons melted butter, one teaspoon salt, two eggs
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