Maize and Potato Cakes

Ingredients

• 3 pint milk
• 4 lb. potato purée
• 1 gill maize meal
• a little jam and flour
• ½ oz. fat
• 1 oz. sugar or syrup
• almond flavouring

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk with the potato, maize meal and fat for 20 minutes; add the syrup or sugar and almond flavouring to taste.

2. 2

   Place on a dish to cool quite level, or fill a bread tin with the mixture.

3. 3

   When cold cut into squares or slices, dust with flour, grease a frying-pan or baking-sheet and fry or bake to a nice colour.

4. 4

   Serve with jam.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The victory cookery book (1918) by Peel, C. S. Mrs, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Maize and Potato Cakes Materials.—3 pint milk, 4 lb. potato purée, 1 gill maize meal, a little jam and flour, } oz. fat, 1 oz. sugar or syrup, almond flavouring

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