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- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
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.
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.