Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• two eggs
• three cups butter-milk or sour milk
• one-half cup lard
• one-half cup sugar
• one cup flour
• one teaspoon saleratus
• one-half teaspoon salt
• three cups Indian meal

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother Hubbard's cupboard (1887), page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JOHNNY CAKE. Two eggs, three cups butter-milk or sour milk, one-half cup lard, one-half cup sug^r, one cup flour, one teaspoon saleratus, one-half teaspoon salt, three cups Indian meal. Mrs. H. E. B. BAKING POWDER BISCUIT. One quart flour, four teaspoons baking powder, a little salt — sifted together ; add a full teaspoon of butter and sufficient water to make soft dough. Roll out, and cut in cakes an inch thick. Bake in quick oven. Ellen. Bread. 31 TEA PUFFS. Two and one-quarter cups flour, three cups milk, three eggs — whites and yolks beaten separately; three teaspoons melted butter, a little salt. Bake in cups, in a hot oven. Mrs. Geo. Darling. INDIAN CORN MUFFINS. Beat one egg thoroughly; put in a coffee-cup; add one tablespoon brown sugar, one tablespoon thick cream or but- ter; fill with butter-milk or sour milk, two handfuls corn meal, one small handful wheat flour, one-half teaspoon soda — rubbed into the flour. Bake in muffin rings on a griddle. Mrs. Edwin Pancost. muffins. One cup of home-made yeast or half of a compressed yeast cake, one pint of sweet milk, two eggs, two tablespoons of melted butter, two tablespoons of sugar. Beat the butter, sugar and eggs well together ; then stir in the milk, slightly warmed, and thicken with flour to the consistency of griddle cakes. When light, bake in muffin rings or on a griddle. Muffins should never be cut with a knife, but be pulled open with the fingers. If wanted for tea, the batter must be mixed immediately after breakfast. Mrs. S. MUFFINS. Three pints flour, one quart milk, two eggs, four teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt (one teaspoon butter, one teaspoon lard — melt together). Bake in quick oven. BREAKFAST PUFFS. Four eggs, four cups milk, four cups flour. Beat milk, yolks of egg and flour together ; add the whites beaten stiff. Bake in quick oven, in gem irons. Mrs. E. F. Wilson. 32 "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard." GEMS. One pint warm water, one teaspoon salt, Graham flour enough to make stiff batter. Have your irons and oven both hot. GRAHAM PUFFS. One quart of Graham flour, one pint of milk, one pint of water, two eggs, a little salt. Bake in cups or gem pans. HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. One cup of sugar, one cup of milk, two and one-half cups of flour, one egg, butter the size of an egg, two teaspoons of baking powder, one and one-half cups of huckleberries. To be eaten hot with butter. This makes a very delicate tea rusk by leaving out the huckleberries, and using only half a cup of sugar. Mrs. Sage. SHORT CAKE. Three teaspoons baking powder, sifted with one and one- half pints flour ; three tablespoons butter, rubbed into the flour ; one-half cup sugar

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