Wheat Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• one pint of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one generous tablespoonful of sugar
• one tablespoonful of melted butter
• half a pint of milk
• one egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix dry ingredients and sieve.

2. 2

   Add milk and beaten egg, then melted butter.

3. 3

   Drop batter into boiling fat by dessert-spoonfuls and cook for six minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 431. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

vel teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix the flour and baking-powder. Beat the egg and sugar together. Melt the butter, and after adding it to the beaten egg and sugar, beat the mixture for a minute. Now add the salt and milk, and finally the flour and baking-powder. Mix quickly, and after putting into buttered muffin-pans, bake in a rather hot oven for twenty-five minutes. * Wheat Gems. These are easily and quickly made. The materials are : a quart of milk, a quart of sifted flour, half a dozen eggs, one table-spoonful of sugar, one table-spoonful of butter, and one teaspoonful of salt. Put two sets of iron gem-pans where they will get very hot. Beat the eggs until light (it is well to use a Dover egg-beater) ; then add the sugar, salt, and milk. Grad- ually pour this mixture upon the sifted flour, beating thoroughly ; and add the table-spoonful of butter, melted. Dip a piece of clean cloth into some soft butter, and rub it over the hot gem-pans ; then pour the batter into the pans, and bake for twenty minutes. The cakes will be light and delicate, and about double their original size. The same mixture, baked in earthen cups for an hour, would increase to four times its first size, and the cakes would then be called pop-overs, 816 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. * Wheat Drop Cakes. The materials needed are : one pint of flour, two tea- spooufuls of baking-powder, half a teaspoonful of salt, one generous table-spoonful of sugar, one table-spoonful of melted butter, half a pint of milk, and one egg

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