Name: One Morning Buckwheat Griddle Oakes
Ingredients: ½ cake compressed yeast; 1 pint cold water; flour (enough to make a medium thick batter); 1 teaspoon salt

One Morning Buckwheat Griddle Oakes

Ingredients

½ cake compressed yeast
1 pint cold water
flour (enough to make a medium thick batter)
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Dissolve the yeast in cold water.
Add flour to create a medium thick batter and mix in the salt.
Beat well and let the batter stand in a moderately warm place overnight.
In the morning, do not stir down; pour or lift the batter with a spoon onto a hot griddle.

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.