Grits Cakes

Ingredients

• Have one pint of cold grits
• add to it 2 well-beaten eggs
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 1^ tablespoons of sifted flour
• 1 pint of sweet milk
• salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Add whites last and bake on a hot griddle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoon of butter, 1 tea- spoon salt; make into a stiff dough, with sweet milk. Break off pieces of dough ; roll into a thin sheet. Bake in a hot oven until a chestnut brown. Sweet Potato Bread. Three good-sized sweet potatoes, 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, % teacup sweet milk, butter size of a walnut. Boil potatoes in jacket and when thoroughly done, run through a sieve. KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 117 Add all ingredients and beat well, bake in loaf or in a pudding dish. Serve hot. Com Bread. One quart of commeal, 1 kitchen spoon butter and lard mixed, 1 teacup milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 eggs. Scald meal with a little boiling water, add salt, beaten yolks, milk, butter melted, frothed whites. Put bread in a greased pan and bake in a slow oven. Oracklin Bread. One quart of commeal, ^ pint cracklins, mashed fine, % tea- spoon salt, mix with fresh buttermilk or lukewarm water. Bake in pan in hot oven or make in oval cakes and bake on a greased griddle. Com Muflbis. One pint of cprnmeal, 1 teacup buttermilk, 1 light tablespoon lard, 1 tablespoon sifted flour, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon salt, % tea- spoon soda. Beat yolks light, add milk, reserving some to dissolve soda, meal, lard, then soda and stiffly beaten white. Bake in hot greased muffin rings or in pan. Flour may be substituted for meal and prepared in same way. Spoon Bread. Have one pint of mush tolerably soft and add to it 2 well^beaten eggs, lump of butter size of a walnut and 1 teacup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of salt ; add more milk if the batter is not thin enough ; cook about 2 hours. Orits Cakes. Have one pint of cold grits, add to it 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 table- spoon of butter, 1^ tablespoons of sifted flour, 1 pint of sweet milk, salt to taste

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