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Johnnie Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 2 cups corn-meal
• 1 heaping teaspoon of soda
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk
• 1/2 cup of molasses
• 1/2 cup of shortening, melted

Instructions

Mix flour and corn-meal, soda, sugar, add eggs beaten with buttermilk, molasses and shortening. Beat all ingredients as fast as possible for a minute. Pour the dough into a warm, well-buttered pan and bake quickly and steadily for half an hour. The dough should be as soft as gingerbread dough. Serve hot.

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Source

The International Jewish Cook Book (1919).