Spider-Cake

Ingredients

• a quart of flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a teaspoonful of baking-soda
• two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• a quarter of a pound of good butter
• about a pint of milk or cold water

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour with salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar.

2. 2

   Chop in butter, make into dough with milk.

3. 3

   Fry in buttered pans until browned on both sides.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 270. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a teaspoonful of salt and two of baking-powder ; mix in enough milk or cold water to form a thick batter, and bake the cakes on a hot griddle as directed in the recipe for Indian slap-jacks. RAISED BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Mix the following ingredients to a smooth batter at night : one quart of buckwheat flour, one gill each of liquid yeast and molasses, a teaspoonful of salt, and enough lukewarm water to make a thick batter ; put the batter into an earthen jar or pitcher, cover it with a folded towel, and let it stand in a warm place over night ; the next morning, fry the cakes as directed in the recipe for Indian slap-jacks. If the bat- ter is at all sour, stir into it a saltspoonful of baking-soda dissolved in a little warm water before cooking the cakes. INDIAN GRIDDLE- CAKES. Sift together one quart of yellow Indian meal, two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, and one teaspoonful of salt; melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a pint and a half of milk SECOND-COURSE SWEETS. 509 over the fire, and as soon as the butter is melted stir in the meal gradually ; after the meal has been stirred into the milk, let the mixture cool ; when this batter is cold, beat four eggs to a froth, and then beat them into the batter, which should then be about the consistency of buckwheat-cake batter ; have ready on the fire a hot griddle, slightly buttered or greased with fat salt pork, to prevent burning, and fry the cakes quickly; serve them hot, with butter and honey or molasses. SPIDER-CAKE. Sift a quart of flour with a teaspoonful each of salt and baking-soda, and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar; or, in place of the soda and cream of tartar, use two heaping teaspoonfuls of any good baking-powder ; chop a quarter of a pound of good butter into the flour, and then quickly make it into a dough stiff enough to mould with about a pint of milk or cold water ; if sour milk is used, the baking- powder or cream of tartar should be omitted, and a heaping teaspoonful of baking-soda

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