Wheat Cakes
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- Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking-powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tablespoon butter
- Piece of salt pork
- Utensils
- Mixing-bowl
- Dover beater
- Sifter
- Tablespoon
- Small saucepan
- Pancake-turner
- Griddle or frying-pan
- Directions
1.
Break the egg into a mixing-bowl, beat it, and remove half of it (about 2 tablespoons), stirring the milk with what remains in the bowl.
2.
Measure the flour, baking-powder, and salt into the sifter, and sift into the milk and egg, stirring well.
3.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan, add it to the batter, and beat thoroughly.
4.
Set the griddle or frying-pan over the fire, and when it is very hot rub it with the salt pork.
5.
Pour the batter on the griddle or frying-pan by the tablespoonful, letting each spoonful spread as much as it will before adding another, and keeping them well separated.
6.
Run the pancake-turner beneath each cake once or twice while it is cooking; and when it has slightly browned on the bottom, turn it over and allow the other side to brown.
7.
Grease the griddle or frying-pan often between the various relays of cakes.
- Remarks
Sour milk may be used with this recipe, in which case omit the baking-powder and mix ½ teaspoon of soda with the sour milk.
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