Breads/Biscuits Water Cakes

water cakes
(from Godey's Ladies Magazine. Edited by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, 1864.)

Ingredients:

2 eggs​

1 pint cold water​

1 tsp. salt​

flour​

butter​

Instructions:

Two eggs beaten very lightly, one pint of cold water, one teaspoonful of salt, flour to make it as thick as fritters, bake half an hour in a hot oven ; eat with butter ; bake in little tins filled full.​

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Here is Civil war Recipe I found recently and tried.

 

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Here is Civil war Recipe I found recently and tried.

Water Cakes

Two eggs beaten very lightly, one pint of cold water, one teaspoonful of salt, flour to make it as thick as fritters, bake half an hour in a hot oven; eat with butter; bake in little tins filled full.

From Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book.

Thanks Donna, sounds good, anything that can be eaten with butter...I am there.