Soft Corn Bread

Ingredients

• one cupful of boiling water
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one-half cupful of white cornmeal
• one pint of hot milk
• two eggs well beaten

Method

1. 1

   In a saucepan, have one cupful of boiling water with one teaspoonful of salt melted.

2. 2

   Sprinkle slowly into it, stirring constantly, one-half cupful of white cornmeal.

3. 3

   Stir until thick and simmer for twenty minutes.

4. 4

   Then add one pint of hot milk to make a thin batter, stir until smooth, cool, and carefully stir in two well-beaten eggs.

5. 5

   Pour into a heated pudding-dish with one tablespoonful of melted butter and bake until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SOFT CORN BREAD — Have one cupful of boiling water in which one teaspoonful of salt has been melted, in a saucepan, and sprinkle slowly into it, stirring all the time, one-half cupful of white cornmeal. Stir until it is a thick mush and simmer for twenty minutes, then add one pint of hot milk, or enough to make a thin batter, and stir until smooth, then cool. Have two eggs well beaten

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