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HOE-CAKE.
Mix corn meal with water or milk (adding a little salt) to the thickness of
stiff batter; stir thoroughly, spread on the baking-board, and tip up before the
fire. On southern plantations they are often baked on the broad hoes used in the
fields, hence the name.
ALABAMA JOHNNY-CAKE.
Cook a pint of rice till tender, add a table-spoon of butter; when cold add two
beaten eggs and one pint of meal, and when mixed spread on an oaken board and
bake by tipping the board up before the fire-place. When done on one side turn
over. The dough should be spread half an inch thick.
JOHNNY-CAKE.
Two-thirds tea-spoon of soda, three table-spoons of sugar, one tea-spoon of
cream of tartar, one egg, one cup of sweet milk, six table-spoons of Indian
meal, three table-spoons of flour, and a little salt. This makes a thin batter.
RHODE ISLAND "SPAT-OUTS."
One pint of sweet milk, four table-spoons of wheat flour, two eggs well beaten,
Indian meal to make a stiff batter, and a little salt; spat into round cakes
half an inch thick, fry in lard like doughnuts, split, and eat warm with
butter.--One hundred years old.
COLD-WATER GEMS.
With very cold or ice-water and Graham flour, and a little salt, make a rather
stiff batter; heat and grease the irons, and bake twenty minutes in a hot
oven.--Mrs. O. M. Scott.
GOOD GRAHAM GEMS.
Three cups of sour milk, one tea-spoon of soda, one of salt, one table-spoon of
brown sugar, one of melted lard, one beaten egg; to the egg add the milk, then
the sugar and salt, then the Graham flour (with the soda mixed in), together
with the lard; make a stiff batter, so that it will drop, not pour, from the
spoon. Have gem pans very hot, grease, fill, and bake fifteen minutes in a hot
oven.--Mrs. J. H. S.
MRS. BUXTON'S GRAHAM GEMS.
Take one egg and beat well; add pinch of salt, one quart of
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