Hoe Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the dough
Sift cornmeal into a pan and add salt.
Pour boiling water over the cornmeal until it is soft enough to work with a spoon.
Cook
Heat a frying pan or griddle and grease it well.
Spread the dough in the pan to cover the bottom.
Cook until browned, then turn to brown the other side.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cornmeal
- Forms the body of the cake; boiling water softens it into a workable dough.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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