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Corn Pone

From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905

Serves 3

A hearty dish.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • five teacupfuls of corn-meal
  • two of Graham flour
  • one of New Orleans molasses
  • two teaspoonfuls of soda
  • one quart of buttermilk

Method

  1. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and put in a buttered tin or porcelain kettle.

  2. Fasten the top securely and submerge in boiling water.

  3. Boil hard for six hours, then slip it from the kettle to a pan and bake slowly for two hours.

Nutrition per serving

737Calories
15 gProtein
144 gCarbs
12 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corn Pone. — Mix thoroughly five teacupfuls of corn-meal, two of Graham flour, one of New Orleans molasses, and two teaspoonfuls of soda with one quart of butter- milk. Put in a tin or porcelain kettle, buttered, and flaring at the top; fasten the 22 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. top securely, plunge into another kettle so it is submerged, till with boiling water and boil hard for six hours ; then slip it from the kettle to a pan and bake slowly for two hours. Corn Dodger. — Take a scant quart of meal, one teaspoonful of soda, half as much salt, and a j^int of buttermilk ; mix well and bake in a moderately heated oven. Western Corn Bread. — Take one pint of meal, pour boiling water on it, and stir until it is about as thick as griddle-cakes. Add one small tablespoonful of salt, about three-fourths of a cup of brown sugar or molases ; then stir in wheat flour until it is quite stiff. When cool enough, add one- half cup of lively yeast. Put it in a warm place to rise, and when light mould it into a COBN-CAKE PANS. loaf with flour, mixing as soft as possible; when light so it fills the basin, bake in a moderate oven two hours. Buttermilk Bread. — Take one quart of buttermilk

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