buckwheat cakes
(from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1878)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1878)
Ingredients:
1 quart buckwheat flour
1 pint wheat flour
1/2 teacup yeast
a pinch of salt
warm water
1 cup of milk
baking soda
butter
Instructions:
1 quart buckwheat flour.
1 pint wheat flour.
1/2 teacup yeast.
A pinch of salt.
Make into a batter with warm water. Set to rise. Thin the batter with a cup of milk (to make them brown well). Add a pinch of soda and bake quickly on a griddle. Butter and send to the table hot. - Mrs. D. B. K.
*by definition, a "Tea Cup" equals 4 ounces or 8 tablespoons.
Corporal's Kitchen
As a good Sons of the South, we are well versed in the song "Dixie". It was written by minstrel Daniel Decatur Emmett circa 1859, quickly growing in popularity, to become the unofficial "National Anthem" of the Southern Confederacy. It was played with much enthusiasm to great cheering at the inauguration of President Jefferson Davis. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying "I have always thought 'Dixie' one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it…I now request the band to favor me with its performance." (April 10, 1865). One of the lesser used verses (at today's Civil War reenactments) goes like this:
There's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land
In this month's offering of "Corporal's Kitchen" we adopted a "Breakfast" theme that could easily be prepared over the campfire. I beg to present a recipe for "Buckwheat Cakes". Whether or not it makes you fat or a little fatter, we'd be pleased to see Pards cooking it or to hear from those who have prepared it for their families, sharing with them our history and our lives around the campfire!
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