Name: To Make Indian Hoe Cake
Ingredients: 1 peck (8 quarts) maize flour; ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt; water as needed

To Make Indian Hoe Cake

Ingredients

1 peck (8 quarts) maize flour
¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt
water as needed

Directions

Prepare the dough

In a large bowl, combine maize flour and coarse sea salt.
Gradually add water and knead into a dough.
Roll out the dough into thin cakes.

Bake

Bake the cakes on a hot broad iron hoe until cooked through.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Maize flour: Forms the bulk of the dough and sets into the cakes' structure when cooked.
Water: Hydrates the maize flour so it binds into a pliable 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.