Marcellus's Corn Meal Batter Cakes

donna

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I am posting this recipe for Littletown. This is the recipe of Marcellus, black cook for Auvergne, the Clay estate in Paris, Bourbon County, Ky. The recipe is in "The Blue Grass Cook Book", published 1904.

Marcellus's Corn-Meal Batter Cakes

1 tablespoon lard
1 pint corn meal
3/4 pint of sour milk
1 small teaspoon soda in milk and stir till it foams
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt

Beat egg and pour milk over it and add meal. Then mix in the melted lard, 1 tablespoonful. Have griddle very hot and well greased and put on with spoon in small cakes and fry.
 
Donna, I made a batch of cornmeal griddle cakes the other night, and they were so good! Didn't use this recipe, but, one very similar, and, different from my old tried and true recipe.
 
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