Rice Batter Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 heaping pint dry cooked rice
• 1 large cup milk or water
• 6 ounces flour — 2 level cups
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons syrup
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Cook rice in a pint of water, mash with warm milk, add flour, and mix in other ingredients with eggs beaten first.

2. 2

   Bake on a griddle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 116. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon baking powder. Remove all dark crust from the bread, and then soak it in a pint of the water Beveral hours, with a plate to press it under. Mash smooth and add the flour, the cup of milk or water, eggs and pow- der. It always improves batter cakes to beat the eggs light, before mixing them in. No shortening nor syrup needed for the above. Cost of material — bread 2, flour 5, eggs and powder 5; 8 cents for 3 pints or 24 cakes. 406— Graham Bread Cakes. Make like the preceding, with part graham flour, and the crumbs of graham bread . 407— Corn Batter Cakes. 1 heaping cup white corn meal. 1 cup flour — 4 ounces. 1 tablespoon melted lard, 1 egg. Little salt. 2 cups water. 1 tablespoon syrup. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix gradually to avoid having lumps in the batter. Add the powder last and beat up well. When you have milk leave out the syrup as the cakes will brown well enough without it. 408~-Corn Cakes Without Flour. 2cu o corn meal 12 ounces, cups water. Lard size of an egg. 2 eggs. Little salt. 1 teaspoon baking bowder. Boil hall the water (or milk) and scald ihe meal with it, add the other ingredi- ents, the powder last. Note. — Buttermilk aud soda can be used instead of baking powder in the several kinds of batter cakes, the pro- portions are 1 teaspoonful soda to 2 cups butter milk-which should be Bour enough to counteract that amount. 409— Rice Batter Cakes. 1 heaping pint dry cooked rice. 1 largo cup milk or water. {] ounces flour — 2 level cups. 2 eggs (or 5 yolks for best quality). 2 tablespoons syrup. 1 teaspooE baking powder. Salt

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