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Sour Milk Griddle Cakes

From Lowney's cook book, 1907

Serves 2

If sour milk is very rich, the eggs may be omitted.

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sour Milk Griddle Cakes 2 Clips flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups sour milk 2 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs Mix in order given, beat well. Heat a griddle ; when hissing hot, grease with piece of salt pork on end of fork. Drop a tablespoon of batter from tip end of spoon on hot griddle. When full of bubbles, turn ; when cooked on both sides, serve on hot plate. If sour milk is very rich, the eggs may be omitted. Graham Griddle Cakes 1 cup graham 2 teaspoons baking powder 4 cup flour 2 eggs 1 tablespoon sugar 1^ cups milk 1 teaspoon salt Scald milk, and pour on to graham flour. When cold, add remaining ingredients ; beat well and cook as Griddle Cakes. Bread Griddle Cakes 2 cups bread crumbs 1 cup flour 2 cups scalded milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder Pour milk on to bread crumbs and let stand several hours. Add dry ingredients, mixed and sifted, yolks and whites beaten separately, and cook as Griddle Cakes. 168 lowney's cook book Rice Griddle Cakes 1 cup cooked rice 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk scalded 1 tablespoon sugar 1| cups flour 1 tablespoon melted butter 2 eggs 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder Pour scalded milk on to rice ; let stand over niglit. Add dry ingredients, eggs well beaten, and last of all, cold milk. Beat well and cook as Griddle Cakes. Hominy Griddle Cakes Substitute hominy for boiled rice, and cook as Rice Griddle Cakes. Sweet Milk Griddle Cakes 1^ cups flour or entire wheat 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter Mix and sift dry ingredients, add yolks well beaten, milk, whites well beaten, and melted butter. Cook as Griddle Cakes. Buckwheat Cakes 2 cups buckwheat ^ yeast cake I cup corn meal or white flour ^ cup lukewarm water 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups warm water I cup molasses 1 teaspoon soda Mix buckwheat, corn meal, and salt ; add dissolved yeast cake, molasses, and water ; beat well. Let rise over night. In the morning beat, add soda, beat, and fry. A pitcher is the most convenient dish for raising these cakes. Flannel Cakes 1| cups Indian meal 4 tablespoons butter li cups flour I yeast cake dissolved in one 1 teaspoon salt quarter cup lukewarm water 2 tablespoons sugar 3 cups scalded milk BREAD 169 Soald meal with milk ; add butter, and when lukewarm, add remaining ingredients ; let mixture rise over night. In the morning cook as Griddle Cakes. Waffles 2 cups flour
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