Johny Cake, or Hoe Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• 3 pints Indian meal
• half pint flour
• salt
• molasses
• shortening
• boiling water
• cold water

Instructions

1. Scald 1 pint of milk and put it to 3 pints of Indian meal and half a pint of flour.
2. Bake before the fire.
3. Or scald two thirds of the Indian meal with milk, or wet two thirds with boiling water.
4. Add salt, molasses and shortening, and work it up with cold water pretty stiff.
5. Bake as above.