Batter Cakes (Old Style)
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cup meal
- pinch salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 pint sweet milk
- boiling water
Instructions
- Sift together half-cup flour and cup and a half meal, and add pinch of salt.
- Scald with boiling water and stir smooth.
- Then add two eggs well beaten, and thin with sweet milk — it will take about half a pint.
- Bake by spoonfuls on a hot, well-greased griddle — the batter must run very freely.
- Serve very hot with fresh sausage, or fried pigs' feet.