Johnny Cake (No. 1)

Ingredients

• One teacupful of sweet milk
• one teacupful buttermilk
• one teaspoonful salt
• one teaspoonful soda
• one tablespoonful melted butter
• enough meal to enable you to roll it into a sheet, half an inch thick

Method

1. 1

   Spread upon a buttered tin, or in a shallow pan, and bake forty minutes.

2. 2

   As soon as it begins to brown, baste it with a rag tied to a stick and dipped in melted butter.

3. 3

   Repeat this five or six times until it is brown and crisp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JOHNNY CAKE. (No. 1.) One teacupful of sweet milk, one teacupful buttermilk, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful melted butter, enough meal to enable you to roll it into a sheet, half an inch thick

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