Mush Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 pint of meal
• 1 egg
• a piece of butter the size of a walnut
• 1 good teaspoon of lard
• enough milk to make the meal hold together

Method

1. 1

   Sift meal with salt.

2. 2

   Beat egg, butter, and lard into it.

3. 3

   Add milk to hold together, shape into a roll, chill, cut into cakes, and fry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

mush cakes, fried until they are crisp and yellow. Mush Cakes. Sift I pint of meal with a little salt in it. Beat i egg and a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and i good teaspoon of lard into it. Add enough milk to make the meal hold together

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