Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take a quart of buckwheat meal, mix with it a tea-spoonful of salt, and
add a handful of Indian meal. Pour a large table-spoonful of the best
brewer’s yeast into the centre of the meal. Then mix it gradually with
cold water till it becomes a batter. Cover it, put it in a warm place
and set it to rise; it will take about three hours. When it is quite
light, and covered with bubbles, it is fit to bake. Put your griddle
over the fire, and let it get quite hot before you begin. Grease it
well with a piece of butter tied in a rag. Then dip out a large ladle
full of the batter and bake it on the griddle; turning it with a broad
wooden paddle. Let the cakes be of large size, and even at the edges.
Ragged edges to batter cakes look very badly. Butter them as you take
them off the griddle. Put several on a plate, and cut them across in
six pieces.
Grease the griddle anew, between baking each cake.
If your batter has been mixed over night and is found to be sour in the
morning, melt in warm water a piece of pearl-ash the size of a grain of
corn, or a little larger; stir it into the batter; let it set half an
hour, and then bake it. The pearl-ash will remove the sour taste, and
increase the lightness of the cakes.
FLANNEL CAKES.
Put a table-spoonful of butter into a quart of milk, and warm them
together till the butter has melted; then stir it well, and set it away
to cool. Beat five eggs as light as possible, and stir them into the
milk in turn with three pints of sifted flour; add a small tea-spoonful
of salt, and a large table-spoonful and a half of the best fresh yeast.
Set the pan of batter near the fire to rise; and if the yeast is good,
it will be light in three hours. Then bake it on a griddle in the
manner of buckwheat cakes. Send them to table hot, and cut across into
four pieces. This batter may be baked in waffle-irons. If so, send to
table with the cakes powdered white sugar and cinnamon.
INDIAN BATTER CAKES.
Mix together a quart of sifted Indian meal, (the yellow meal is best
for all purposes,) and a handful of wheat flour. Warm a quart of milk,
and stir into it a small tea-spoonful of salt, and two large
table-spoonfuls of the best fresh yeast. Beat three eggs very light,
and stir them gradually into the milk in turn with the meal. Cover it,
and set it to rise for three or four hours. When quite light, bake it
on a griddle in the manner of buckwheat cakes. Butter them, cut them
across, and send them to table hot, with molasses in a sauce-boat.
If the batter should chance to become sour before it is baked, stir in
about a salt-spoonful of pearl-ash dissolved in a little lukewarm
water; and let it set half an hour longer before it is baked.
INDIAN MUSH CAKES.
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