Spider Corn-Cake

Original Recipe

Beat two eggs and one-fourth cup sugar together. Then add one cup sweet milk and one cup of sour milk in which you have dissolved one teaspoonful soda. Add a teaspoonful of salt. Then mix one and two-thirds cups of granulated corn meal and one-third cup flour with this. Put a spider or skillet on the range and when it is hot melt in two tablespoonfuls of butter. Turn the spider so that the butter can run up on the sides of the pan. Pour in the corn-cake mixture and add one more cup of sweet milk, but do not stir afterwards. Put this in the oven and bake from twenty to thirty-five minutes. When done, there should be a streak of custard through it.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup sweet milk and one cup of sour milk in which you have dissolved one teaspoonful soda
  • 1 teaspoonful of salt
  • 1 spider or skillet on the range and when it is hot melt in two tablespoonfuls of butter
  • 1 more cup of sweet milk
  • 5 minutes
  • 1 streak of custard through it

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Beat two eggs and one-fourth cup sugar together.

  2. 2

    Then add one cup sweet milk and one cup of sour milk in which you have dissolved one teaspoonful soda.

  3. 3

    Add a teaspoonful of salt.

  4. 4

    Then mix one and two-thirds cups of granulated corn meal and one-third cup flour with this.

  5. 5

    Put a spider or skillet on the range and when it is hot melt in two tablespoonfuls of butter.

  6. 6

    Turn the spider so that the butter can run up on the sides of the pan.

  7. 7

    Pour in the corn-cake mixture and add one more cup of sweet milk, but do not stir afterwards.

  8. 8

    Put this in the oven and bake from twenty to thirty-five minutes.

  9. 9

    When done, there should be a streak of custard through it.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)