Poverty Cakes

Ingredients

• one pint and a half of rye meal
• half a pint of corn meal
• a scant half-cupful of molasses
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one fourth of a teaspoonful of soda
• one egg
• one pint of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Mix the meals and salt.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of the water; then add it to the rest of the water and the molasses, and mix thoroughly.

3. 3

   Pour this mixture upon the first one, and mix well.

4. 4

   Now add the egg, well beaten.

5. 5

   Drop this batter, by dessert-spoonfuls, into boiling fat, and cook for ten minutes.

6. 6

   Drain on brown paper, and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 432. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poverty Cakes. Use one pint and a half of rye meal, half a pint of corn meal, a scant half-cupful of molasses, one teaspoon- ful of salt, one fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, one egg, and one pint of cold water. Mix the meals and salt. Dissolve the soda in one table-spoonful of the water ; then add it to the rest of the water and the molasses, and mix thoroughly. Pour this mixture upon the first one, and mix well. Now add the egg, well beaten. Drop this batter, by dessert- spoonfuls, into boiling fat, and cook for ten minutes. Drain on brown paper, and serve hot. * Lapland Cakes. After beating the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth, and the yolks as light as possible, mix the two, and add a pint of not very rich cream and half a teaspoonful of salt. Pour the mixture upon a generous pint of sifted flour ; and after beating vigorously, pour it into buttered cups of brown earthenware. Bake for three-quarters of an hour in a moderately quick oven. These cakes may be baked in half an hour in iron gem-pans, but will not be so light as if they came from cups. BREAD, ROLLS, AND MUFFINS. 817 * Rye Pop-Overs. Put a cupful and a half of rye meal and a cupful of wheat flour into a bowl, with one table-spoonful of sugar and one teaspoonful of salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.