Spider Corn-Cake

Ingredients

• Beat two eggs
• one-fourth cup sugar
• one cup sweet milk
• one cup of sour milk
• one teaspoonful soda
• one and two-thirds cups of granulated corn meal
• one-third cup flour
• two tablespoonfuls of butter

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar, add milks and soda, then mix in corn meal and flour.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a skillet, pour in the mixture, add more milk, and bake for 20-35 minutes until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPIDER CORN-CAKE. Beat two eggs and one-fourth cup sugar together. Then add one cup sweet milk and one cup of sour milk in which you have dissolved one tea- spoonful soda. Add a teaspoonful of salt. Then mix one and twO'thirds cups of granulated corn meal and one-third cup flour with this. Put a spider or skillet on the range and when it is hot melt in two tablespoon- fuls of butter. Turn the spider so that the butter can run up on the sides of the pan. Pour in the corn-cake mixture and add one more cup of sweet milk, but do not stir afterwards. Put this in the oven and bake from twenty to thirty-five minutes. When done, there should be a streak of custard through it. SOUTHERN CORN MEAL PONE OR CORN DODGERS. Mix with cold water into a soft dough one quart of southern corn meal, sifted, a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of butter or lard melted. Mold into oval cakes with the hands and bake in a very hot oven, in well-greased pans. To be eaten hot. The crust should be brown. 237 BREAD — BISCUITS, ROLLS, MUFFINS, ETC. P RAISED POTATO-CAKE. Potato-cakes, to be served with roast lamb or with game, are made of equal quantities of mashed potatoes and of flour, say one quart of each, two tablespoonfuls of butter

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