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Corn Bread

A simple corn bread made with Indian meal and sour milk, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Corn Bread

Corn Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Mix the Indian meal with sour milk until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

  2. Serve warm.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Indian meal
Forms the main body of the bread and gives it a coarse, grainy texture.
Sour milk
Adds moisture and a tangy flavor to the batter.

“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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