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Cornmeal Cakes

From Temperance cook book, 1887

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CORNMEAL CAKES. To one quart of mush, add, when hot, one-half cup unmelted lard, salt it well when luke-warm, add one-half cup of yeast; make this at noon, and at night add a small teaspoonful of soda

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