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Ash Cake for Picnics

A simple dough made from Indian meal, water, and salt, wrapped in leaves and baked in hot ashes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Ash Cake for Picnics

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix Indian meal with enough water and salt to form a stiff dough.

Wrap and bake

  1. Roll the dough into a shape and wrap it in maize or cabbage leaves.

  2. Bake in hot ashes until golden brown.

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

Indian meal
Forms the main body of the cake, and its starch sets as it cooks to give a firm crumb.

“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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