Name: Southern Corn Pone
Ingredients: 3 cups bolted corn meal; 1 teaspoon salt; cold water

Southern Corn Pone

Ingredients

3 cups bolted corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
cold water

Directions

Mix corn meal and salt in a bowl.
Add enough cold water to form a dough.
Shape into three pones.
Heat a skillet and place the pones in it.
Bake until thoroughly done.

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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What each ingredient does

Bolted corn meal: Forms the dough and gives the pones their body and corn flavor.
Cold water: Hydrates the corn meal so it binds into a shapeable 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.