WHEATEN BATTER-CAKES

Ingredients

• two eggs broken into a bowl and beaten together
• three tea-cupfuls of buttermilk
• one tea-spoonful of soda
• one-half tea-spoonful of salt
• lard the size of a walnut
• four tea-cupfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Bake in small cakes on a hot griddle well greased.

2. 2

   Butter as baked.

3. 3

   Serve very hot.

4. 4

   Excellent.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHEATEN BATTER-CAKES Take two eggs broken into a bowl and beaten together. Pour into this three tea-cupfuls of buttermilk. Stir well, and add one tea-spoonful of soda slightly heaped, one-half tea-spoonful of salt, lard the size of a walnut, four tea-cup- fuls of flour. Bake in small cakes on a hot griddle well greased. Butter as baked. Serve very hot. Excellent. Mrs. Thomas Jackson. RICE BATTER-CAKES. Take one egg beaten very light, one cupful of sour milk, with enough soda stirred in to make it foam. Then mash thoroughly two cupfuls of cold boiled rice. Put in enough flour to make the cake turn well. Have the griddle hot and well greased. The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 149 BREAD CRUMB BATTER-CAKES. Take one pint of light bread crumbs rolled fine, one pint of flour, one egg, one table-spoonful of lard, a little over one quart of buttermilk, one level tea-spoonful of soda. Mks. N. A. Glascock. RICE BREAD. Boil one tea- cupful of rice until dry and soft, put in two cupfuls of meal and mix well. Beat two eggs very light and add to the rice, a little salt, and a small piece of lard. Thin the batter with sweet milk. Do not let it be thicker than for muffins. Bake — not too long, or it will be dry. Miss Aelie Bascoini. RICE CRUMPETS. Stir into two tea-cupfuls of milk three table-spoonfuls of quick yeast, one table-spoonful of white sugar, butter the size of a small egg melted, one tea-cupful of boiled rice, four tea-cupfuls of flour

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