Corn Pone

Ingredients

• one quart of corn meal mush
• one and one-half pints cold water
• one cupful buttermilk
• a level teaspoonful soda
• one tablespoonful salt
• three-fourths cupful sugar
• two tablespoonfuls flour
• enough meal to make it about as stiff as common corn bread

Method

1. 1

   Stir well and add corn meal to make soft batter.

2. 2

   Let stand overnight in a warm place.

3. 3

   In the morning, add buttermilk, soda, beaten egg, salt, sugar, and flour.

4. 4

   Bake for one hour and a quarter in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corn Pone. — To one quart of corn meal mush, add one and one-half pints cold water ; stir well and add corn meal to make soft batter. Let stand overnight in a warm place. In the morning add one cupful but- termilk, a level teaspoonful soda, one ^^^ beaten light, one tablespoonful salt, three- fourths cupful sugar, two tablespoon fuls flour. Add enough meal to make it about as stiff as common corn bread

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