The Blue Grass Cook Book

page 10

  1 small teaspoon soda in milk and stir till it foams,

  1 egg,

  1/2 teaspoon salt.

Beat egg and pour milk over it and add meal. Then mix in the melted lard, 1
tablespoonful. Have griddle very hot and well greased and put on with spoon in
small cakes and fry.

      EGG BREAD
Pour a little boiling water over 1 quart of meal to scald it. Add a teaspoon of
salt and stir in yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of lard, and
butter melted. Add the well-beaten whites last.

Bake in moderate oven till well done--nearly an hour.

      JOHNNIE CAKE

  1 quart meal,

  1 pint warm water,

  1 teaspoon salt.

Sift meal in a pan and add water and salt. Stir it until it is light, and then
place on a new, clean board and place nearly upright before the fire. When
brown, cut in squares, butter nicely, and serve hot.

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