Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter
• two tablespoonfuls of boiling water
• a pint of siveet milk
• a piece of wood
• 3 eggs
• two little boys are waiting at the gate
• two little girls

Directions

1. IM Pints of Indian Meal. 3 Eggs. A Pint of Siveet Milk or Buttermilk or Hot

2. 2 Tablespoonfuls of Melted Butter, or 1 of

3. % Teaspoonful of Soda (Ma; Be Omitted.) Beat the eggs till very light, and add the cornmeal, and beat till light. Add the melted butter and the milk or water. If buttermilk is used, you may use the soda, dissolvins It In two tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Do not use the soda with the sweet milk. Make a dough or batter thick enough to be spread into cakes a

4. hal£ inch in thickness and about five inches in diameter, the caltes, of course, being formed round. Place in buttered tins, and bake in a mod- erate oven for about a half hour, frequently brushing across while baking with melted butter. Do this about four or five times.

5. In the olden days, Johnny Cake was baked on a clean, sweet board, before a hot coal fire. The board had to be made of oak wood. The cake was formed and_ placed on the board, and the board was inclined at an angle before the hot coal Are, with a piece of wood or a flatiron to hold it up, and the cake was placed ' at such an angle that it could harden without slipping oft. When quite hard it was stood upright and baked to a nice, crisp brown on both sides, turning as needed, and frequently basting with butter. The Johnny Cake was' served hot for lunch or tea, being sent to the table hot, split and buttered, or served with fresh, sweet butter and buttermilk. Hence the old Creole song, which was sung to the little children, and which, being translated, runs: ^

6. "Come, Butter Cake! Come, Butter Caket

7. For a hot Johnny Cake. Come, Butter Cake!"

8. And so on, the lines varying "Two little girls," or "Little girl and boy are waiting at the gate," according to the number of children the old mammy was tending. The old South- ern darkies also sang this song while churning.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Water	not in our table	0
Wood	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.