Spoon Bread

Ingredients

• One and a half cups of meal
• one and a half cups of milk
• three eggs
• a tablespoonful of lard
• a tablespoonful of butter
• two teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Scald the meal thoroughly with hot water, then stir in the eggs, melted butter, and lard, then the milk, and lastly the baking powder.

2. 2

   Be careful to have a thin batter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Southern Recipes (1913) by Laura Thornton Knowles, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Sift all these together. One tablespoonful of cold lard rubbed in with 35 36 SOUTHERN RECIPES spoon (not the hands), add one and one-half cups of cold milk, making a thinner batter than for beaten biscuit, work well with spoon only, should be just soft enough to roll out, cut with biscuit cutter and bake in moderately hot oven. SALLY LUNN Two eggs, two cups of milk, two heaping teaspoonfuls of Royal baking powder, two tablespoon fuls of sugar, dessertspoonful of butter, flour enough for a pound cake dough. Bake in a quick oven. BE J TEN BISCUIT To one quart of flour add one teaspoonful salt, one pinch soda, sift these altogether, then mbc in one tablespoon of lard, which has previously been on ice. ( It must be cold and stiff.) Moisten all with half a pint of milk, which has also been on ice and in which two tablespoonfuls of crushed ice is put. Mix all well together, beat or work in machine until light, and bake in a moderate oven. A hot oven blisters them. BREAD 37 WAFFLES One pint of flour, one pint of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one half teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl, add sugar and salt, rub butter in well, then the milk and yolks of the eggs which have been beaten light. Then add the whites, which have been beaten to a stiff froth. Have your irons very hot and brush with butter or lard and bake waiRes about two minutes^ or till brown. PLAIN WAFERS One cup of milk, two teaspoonfuls of melted butter, a little salt, sifted flour enough to make a stiff batter. Beat rapidly until smooth and light, and bake quickly in hot irons. DELICIOUS RICE CAKES Put one pound of rice in water and soak over night; boil it very soft in the morning, and strain the water from it ; mix with it while 38 SOUTHERN RECIPES hot, a quarter of a pound of butter; set this away to cool. When cold add one quart of milk, a little salt, six eggs, then sift half a pound of flour, stir it In gradually to other ingredients, beat the whole very well. Bake on a griddle like other batter cakes. SPOON BREAD One and a half cups of meal, one and a half cups of milk, three eggs, a tablespoonful of lard, a tablespoonful of butter

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