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Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• 1 quart of Indian meal
• 1 pint of warm water
• 1 small tea-spoonful of salt

Instructions

Sift the Indian meal into a pan; make a hole in the middle, and pour in the warm water. Mix the meal and water gradually into a batter, adding the salt. Beat it very hard, and for a long time, till it becomes quite light. Then spread it thick and even on a stout piece of smooth board. Place it upright on the hearth before a clear fire, with a flat iron or something of the sort to support the board behind, and bake it well. Cut it into squares, and split and butter them hot.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).

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