Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pt. of Indian meal
• 1 teacupful of sugar
• 1 pt. of milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful of butter
• salt to taste
• 1 teaspoonful of dissolved saleratus

Method

1. 1

   Mix the butter and sugar with the meal; boil half the milk.

2. 2

   Add the dissolved saleratus and the eggs, after they have been well beaten, to the remaining half of cold milk.

3. 3

   Pour the boiling milk over the meal and let it cool.

4. 4

   Then add the cold milk and saleratus.

5. 5

   Bake in a shallow pan.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Johnny Cake—Ingredients—1 pt. of Indian meal, 1 teacupful © of sugar, I pt. of milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of butter, ‘salt to taste, I teaspoonful of dissolved saleratus.

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