Rice Journey, or Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pint rice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 large spoon butter
• 1 pint rice flour
• 1/2 pint milk
• milk
• butter

Instructions

1. Boil a pint of rice quite soft, with a tea-spoonful of salt.
2. Mix with it while hot a large spoonful of butter, and spread it on a dish to cool.
3. When perfectly cold, add a pint of rice flour and half a pint of milk, and beat them all together till well mingled.
4. Take the middle part of the head of a barrel, make it quite clean, and wet it.
5. Put on the mixture about an inch thick, smooth it with a spoon, and baste it with a little milk.
6. Set the board aslant before clear coals.
7. When sufficiently baked, slip a thread under the cake and turn it; baste and bake that side in a similar manner.
8. Split it, and butter it while hot.
9. Small homony boiled and mixed with rice flour is better than all rice; and if baked very thin, and afterwards toasted and buttered, it is nearly as good as cassada bread.