Batter Cakes
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 2 cups small hominy
- 2 cups corn meal
- salt
- 1 large spoonful butter
- 3 eggs
- milk
Instructions
- Boil two cups of small homony very soft.
- Add an equal quantity of corn meal, with a little salt and a large spoonful of butter.
- Make it in a thin batter with three eggs and a sufficient quantity of milk.
- Beat all together some time.
- Bake them on a griddle, or in woffle irons.
- When eggs cannot be procured, yeast makes a good substitute: put a spoonful in the batter and let it stand an hour to rise.