Johnny Cake

Name: Johnny Cake
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: Two teacups sour milk; a piece of butter as large as an egg; a tablespoonful of sugar; one egg; a little salt; half a teacupful of flour; thicken with corn meal; a large teaspoonful of soda

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 1

Experiment to get the right batter thickness.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 340. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JOHNNY CAKE. Two teacups sour milk, a piece of butter as large as an egg, a table- spoonful of sugar, one egg, a little salt, half a teacupful of flour, thicken with corn meal, adding a large teaspoonfui of soda

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