Flannel Cake

Ingredients

• 2oz. of butter
• a quart of flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• the well-beaten yolks of three eggs
• one and a half pints of milk
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add salt, yolks of eggs, and milk.

2. 2

   Beat until smooth, then mix in whipped egg whites and baking powder.

3. 3

   Bake quickly on a hot girdle.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Flannel Cake. — Rub 2oz. of butter smoothly into a quart of flour, then add a teaspoonful of salt, the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, and one and a half pints of milk ; beat this all vigorously into the flour till smooth, when you mix in the stiffly-whipped whites of the eggs and two teaspoon- fuls of baking powder. Bake quickly on a hot girdle. Or, dissolve over the fire two full tablespoonfuls of butter in a pint of sweet milk, and, when it is all dissolved, add in, off the fire, a pint of cold milk, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, a teaspoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of potato yeast, and enough flour to make it all a stiff batter. Set it in a warm place to rise, for three hours ; then add the well- whisked whites of the eggs, and bake on a hot greased girdle. The batter at the last should be just stiff enough to drop neatly from the spoon. “ Gems ” (Corn). — These derive their name chiefly from the small round moulds in which they are made, but tiny patty pans practically answer quite as well. Put into a basin ten full ounces of Indian cornmeal, make a bay in this, and put into it 2oz. fresh butter, pouring over it half a pint of abso- lutely boiling milk ; stir it well together, then add half a pint of cold milk, three well-beaten eggs, a level (small) teaspoonful of salt, and 4oz. wheat flour. Beat this all well ROLLS, &c. 63 together, then strew in two teaspoonfuls of baking powder

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.