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To Make Indian Hoe Cake

A simple flatbread made from maize flour, salt, and water, baked on a hot iron hoe.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Make Indian Hoe Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Knead the maize flour with a little coarse sea salt and enough water to form a dough.

  2. Roll out the dough into thin cakes.

  3. Bake the cakes on a hot broad iron hoe.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Maize flour
Forms the dough and provides the bulk of the cakes, setting as it cooks.

“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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