Hoecake

Ingredients

• Take 1 quart of sifted corn meal
• 1 dessertspoon lard
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• sufficient boiling water to moisten

Method

1. 1

   Beat hard with a kitchen spoon, shape into round cakes, bake on the griddle; turn while cooking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

hoecake an inch thick. Bake in oven a chestnut brown. Fruit Biscuit. Grated rind of 1 lemon, 2^ pounds of flour, 3 heaping tea- spoons baking powder, % pound of lard, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 ounces granulated sugar, 2 eggs, some citron and raisins, enough new milk to make soft dough. Cut with a cutter. Brush the top with milk and eggs. Bake in a hot oven. Bolls. Add to 1 pint of hot milk 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon each of butter and lard; let it cool, add 1 compressed yeast cake ; place in the center of 1 quart of flour, stirring in flour to make a thick bat- ter. Cover and let it rise, knead in rest of flour, let it rise double. Roll out to ^ inch, cut with form, indent each, brush over with butter, fold ^ over the other, put in pan, cover for 1 hour, then bake 20 minutes. Pulled Bread. One quart of flour, 1 cud sour buttermilk, 2% kitchen spoons of goose grease, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt. Mix together, then put in covered bucket to sour one day. Set bucket in pot of hot water, boil 3 hours. Remove from bucket, place in oven 15 minutes to dry. Cut in slices and serve cold. Pinch Bolls. Use roll recipe ; make bread in the morning ; in the afternoon, pinch off pieces of dough size of an egg, shape with the hand, put rolls close together in covered pan, grease well on top with butter. Set to rise, then bake in moderate oven. * Erimneys. One pint of sifted flour, 2 ounces cold lard, % teaspoon salt, % teacup ice water, with 1 tablespoon milk. Mix in lard dry, the salt, then water and milk; if not soft enough add more milk; beat until dough blisters. Cut out with biscuit cutter, then roll each one into a thin sheet, stick with fork, place in pan and bake a chestnut brown. Wafers. One pint of flour, 1 heaping tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon salt, enough new milk to make a stiff dough. Ejiead, then break off pieces KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 105 of dough and roll into thin sheet. Bake in hot oven a chestnut brown. Oraham Bread. One and one-half cups of Graham flour, % cup white flour, ^ cup sugar, 1^ teaspoons baking powder, % teaspoon salt. Mix thoroughly, usmg enough sweet milk to make a thick batter, stir with a spoon. Water may be substituted for milk; in that case add 1 tablespoon of melted butter. Bake in a greased pan. Tea Bolls. One quart of sifted flour, % cake yeast dissolved in lukewarm milk, 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar, 1-3 cup of butter, ^ tea- spoon of salt and enough lukewarm milk to make a tolerably stiff dough ; set to rise. Bake in a quick oven 20 minutes. If desired for breakfast make rolls at night. Gom Bread. (Use ''Indian Meal"). One eggy % cup of sugar, 1 pint of flour, 1 pint meal, 1 pint milk, 1 heaping tablespoon of butter, 1 teaspoon salt. Beat sugar and egg together; add to this half of the milk, all of the meal, butter and salt, half of flour, and rest of milk; sift baking powder into flour and beat hard. Grease the pan with butter and bake in a hot oven. Hoecake. Take 1 quart of sifted corn meal, 1 dessertspoon lard, 1 teaspoon of salt and sufficient boiling water to moisten

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