Buckwheat Cakes
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 large spoonful yeast
- salt
- 1 quart buckwheat meal
- cold water
Instructions
- Put a large spoonful of yeast and a little salt into a quart of buckwheat meal.
- Make it into a batter with cold water and let it rise well.
- Bake it on a griddle.
- It turns sour very quickly if it be allowed to stand any time after it has risen.