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Southern Johnny Cakes

Griddle or baked cakes made from hominy, rice, or granular meal, with milk, water, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Southern Johnny Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Cook rice and hominy in 2 cups of water, each.

  2. Cook meal in water for 10 minutes.

  3. Add ½-1 cup milk, salt and rice flour.

  4. Add oil, cool a little.

  5. Add yolks of eggs, beat well.

  6. Fold in stiffly-beaten whites of eggs.

Cook and serve

  1. Drop by spoonfuls on hot, oiled griddle.

  2. Flatten with fingers dipped in cold water.

  3. Bake in oven or on top of stove.

  4. Bake in oiled pudding dish or pie plates, in moderate oven.

  5. Serve at once.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

227Calories
14 gProtein
13 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks enrich the batter and the whites, folded in stiff, lighten it for a tender texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, loosening the batter to a spoonable consistency.
Hominy
Cooked grain that thickens the batter and gives it a soft, starchy body.

The step that matters

Fold in stiffly-beaten whites of eggs. Whites hold air only when beaten stiff and folded in gently; overmixing deflates them, so the batter loses the lift that keeps it light.

“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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