Indian Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• a teacupful of powdered white sugar
• a quart of rich milk
• two ounces of butter
• a saltspoonful of salt
• a teacupful of good strong yeast

Method

1. 1

   Mix the sugar with the milk and butter, heat until scalding, then add sifted yellow Indian meal to make a thick batter.

2. 2

   Beat for 15 minutes, cool, then add beaten eggs and yeast, and beat again.

3. 3

   Let rise for 4 hours, then bake for 2 hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 157. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

INDIAN LOAF CAKE. Mix a teacupful of powdered white sugar with a quart of rich milk, and cut up in the milk two ounces of butter, adding a saltspoonful of salt. Put this mixture into a covered pan or skillet, and set it on the fire till it is scalding hot. Then take it off, and scald with it as much yellow Indian meal (previously sifted) as will make it of the consistency of thick boiled mush. Beat the whole very hard for a quarter of an hour, and then set it away to cool. While it is cooling, beat three eggs very light, and stir them gradually into the mixture when it is about as warm as new milk. Add a teacupful of good strong yeast

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