Sour Milk Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

• 1% cupfuls flour
• 1 egg
• % teaspoonful salt
• 1% cupfuls sour milk
• % teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour, salt and soda together and add the sour milk and well beaten egg.

2. 2

   Drop by spoonfuls on a hot griddle iron and cook on one side.

3. 3

   When puffed, full of bubbles and cooked on the edges, turn and cook on the other side.

4. 4

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cupful sour milk 1 cupful flour 1 tablespoonful butter 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 egg y^ teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda QUICK BREADS 29 Sift the soda and flour together and mix with the dry in- gredients. Beat egg and add it to the sour milk and the melted butter. Beat in the dry ingredients, pour into an oiled tin and bake in a hot oven about 25 minutes. Bran Bread 2 cupfuls sour milk 1 teaspoonful soda 3 eggs 2 cupfuls Graham flour 2 cupfuls bran 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful raisins % cupful sugar Add the sugar and salt to the milk, beat the eggs thoroughly and add them. Then stir in the other ingredients and bake 1 hour in a moderate oven. Chopped dates may be used instead of the raisins if one wishes. Lucy's Walnut Bread 3 cupfuls Graham flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 3 cupfuls white flour 1 cupful molasses 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda 1 cupful walnut meats 3 cupfuls milk Sift the dry ingredients together. Add the molasses in which the soda has been stirred. Then add the crushed and floured walnut meats and sufficient milk to make a drop batter. Pour in oiled bread pans and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with jelly and butter. Nut Bread 3% cupfuls white flour 1 cupful nuts, ground 3^ teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 egg % cupful sugar 1 cupful milk 1 teaspoonful salt Sift the dry ingredients together three times. Stir the mix- ture into the milk in which the beaten egg has been mixed. Add the floured nut meats and pour in an oiled bread pan. Let stand 20 minutes. Bake in a slow oven from 1 to li/^ hours. / CHAPTEE 5 GRIDDLE CAKES AND WAFFLES Sour Milk Griddle Cakes 1% cupfuls flour 1 egg % teaspoonful salt 1% cupfuls sour mUk % teaspoonful soda

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