Buckwheat Cakes - American Recipe

Buckwheat Cakes

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Double-boiler, Mixing-bowl, Small bowl, Mixing-spoon, Pancake-turner, Griddle or frying-pan

Classic American buckwheat cakes — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk
• ⅓ cup fine bread crumbs
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ yeast cake
• ½ cup luke-warm water
• 1¾ cups buckwheat flour
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• Piece of salt pork

Method

1. Scald — the milk in a double-boiler.
2. Measure — the bread crumbs and salt into a mixing-bowl, add the milk to them, mix, and let stand thirty minutes.
3. Measure — the lukewarm water into a small bowl, add the yeast to it, and with a spoon stir and rub the yeast until it is dissolved.
4. Pour — the liquid yeast into the milk and bread crumbs, mix, and add the buckwheat flour. Beat well, and let the mixture stand overnight, covering the bowl with a clean towel.
5. In — the morning add the molasses, and stir well.
6. Cook — on a griddle or frying-pan as directed in the preceding recipe for Wheat Cakes.

Tags: pork, milk, flour, bread, buckwheat · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)