Buckwheat Cakes

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Put a large spoonful of yeast and a little salt into a quart of buckwheat meal.
  2. Make it into a batter with cold water and let it rise well.
  3. Bake it on a griddle.
  4. It turns sour very quickly if it be allowed to stand any time after it has risen.

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