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Old-Fashioned Johnny Cake

From The national course in home economics, 1917

Serves 2

Mrs. Mary Hilton

Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD-FASHIONED JOHNNY CAKE. Two cups of corn-meal, one cup of flour, a pint of buttermilk, one heaping tablespoonful of lard and one heaping teaspoonful of soda. Add one-half of a cup of sugar and a little salt

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