Rice Journey, or Johnny Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pint rice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 large spoon butter
• 1 pint rice flour
• 0.5 pint milk
• milk
• butter

Instructions

1. Boil a pint of rice quite soft with a teaspoon of salt. While hot, mix in a large spoonful of butter and spread on a dish to cool. Once perfectly cold, add a pint of rice flour and half a pint of milk, beating all together until well mingled.
2. Take the middle part of a barrel head, clean it thoroughly, wet it, and spread the mixture about an inch thick on it. Smooth with a spoon and baste with a little milk. Set the board aslant before clear coals and bake until sufficiently done.
3. Slip a thread under the cake and turn it. Baste the other side and bake in similar manner. When done, split it and butter while hot.
4. Note: Small hominy boiled and mixed with rice flour is better than all rice. If baked very thin and afterwards toasted and buttered, it is nearly as good as cassada bread.