Puff Gems

Ingredients

• one egg
• one-quarter cupful sugar
• two tablespoonfuls of melted butter
• one cupful of sour milk
• one cupful of cornmeal
• one cupful of white flour
• one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder
• one-quarter teaspoonful of soda
• tablespoonful of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Beat egg, add sugar, melted butter, and sour milk.

2. 2

   Mix in cornmeal and flour with baking powder.

3. 3

   Dissolve soda in boiling water, add to mixture, beat well, and pour into gem pans.

4. 4

   Bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Puff Gems. — Beat very light one egg, then add to it one-quarter cup- ful sugar, two tablespoontuls of melted butter, one cupful' of sour milk. Beat all well. Then add one cupful of cornmeal and one cupful of white flour into which has been well mixed one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Lastly dissolve one-quarter teaspoonful of soda in tablespoonful of boiling water

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