Johnnie Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Scald the cornmeal at night and let it stand in a warm place until morning.
In the morning, add sour milk to achieve the right consistency.
Mix in baking soda and salt.
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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