Breads/Biscuits Bread Batter Cakes

bread batter cakes

(from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, 1845)

Ingredients:

slices of stale bread​

cold sweet milk​

wheat flour​

2 eggs​

1 tsp. salt​

1 tbsp. good yeast​

Instructions:

Soak slices of stale bread in cold sweet milk for half an hour; then put it over the fire, and let it come to a boil, and mash it well; when nearly cool, add wheat flour enough to make a stiff batter; beat this together with two eggs, a tea-spoonful of salt, and a table-spoonful of good yeast; let it rise and bake as buckwheat cakes; if light before you are ready, set them in a cold place.​

Photo by How can I recycle this, CC-2.0​

Some time ago I posted a list of the ways to use stale bread - this one was not on the list and is new to me!

How could one not love a book whose motto is "The source of liberal deeds is wise economy."

 

[donna]

Sounds good. Thanks for posting.

 

[Scott1967]

I don't normally comment on cooking no shock their but my wife uses the exact same recipe I know this because I've just asked her she use full cream milk and vanilla but apart from that virtually the same , According to my wife its an old Welsh recipe to make best use of bread that's seen better days as bread in North Wales was not a common commodity in a mountainous region so people would use every bit of food.

Thx for the post Lup.

 

[lupaglupa]

I don't normally comment on cooking no shock their but my wife uses the exact same recipe I know this because I've just asked her she use full cream milk and vanilla but apart from that virtually the same , According to my wife its an old Welsh recipe to make best use of bread that's seen better days as bread in North Wales was not a common commodity in a mountainous region so people would use every bit of food.

Thx for the post Lup.

Using every bit of food was something most people did back in the day - I'm always impressed to see how ingenious people were.

 

[donna]

I am impressed too. They could have so little and do so much to make food last.

 

[donna]

We have thread on Welsh Cakes. It was started by Northern Light. Miss her. Has anyone seen anything from her? Hope she doing okay.