Virginia Corn Bread

Ingredients

• a tablespoonful of butter
• three pints and a half of boiling milk
• one quart of India meal
• half a pint of wheat flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• two eggs, well beaten

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve butter in boiling milk, scald the India meal, and when cool, add wheat flour, sugar, salt, and beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Mix well and bake in buttered cake-tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 334. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VIRGINIA CORN BREAD. Dissolve a tablespoonful of butter in three pints and a half of boil- ing milk, and into this scald one quart of India meal. When cool add half a pint of wheat flour, a little sugar, a teaspoonful of salt and two eggs> well beaten

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