K. ENGLISH JOHNNY CAKE

Ingredients

• Boil a pint of sweet milk
• a teacup and a half of Indian corn meal
• a teaspoon of carbonate of soda
• half a teacup of sour milk
• one beaten egg
• a tablespoon of melted butter
• a tablespoon of flour
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Pour the boiling milk over the corn meal and beat for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Add salt, sour milk, beaten egg, melted butter, flour, and soda.

3. 3

   Beat well again.

4. 4

   Best baked in a spider on the stove.

5. 5

   When browned on the bottom, turn it into another spider or finish on a griddle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 128. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

K. ENGLISH JOHNNY CAKE. Boil a pint of sweet milk ; pour it over a teacup and a half of Indian corn meal and beat it for fifteen minutes. Unless well beaten, it will not be light. Add a little salt, half a teacup of sour milk, one beaten egg, a tablespoon of melted butter, a tablespoon of flour, and a teaspoon of carbonate of soda

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