Mush Batter Cakes (For Invalids)
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 1/2 pint water
- salt
- 1 cup cornmeal
- fat or grease
Instructions
- Bring half a pint of water to a bubbling boil in something open, and add to it a pinch of salt.
- Then by littles strew in a cup of sifted meal, stirring it well to avoid lumps.
- Let cool partly, then cook by small spoonfuls on a hot griddle very lightly greased.
- Make the spoonfuls brown on both sides, and serve very hot.