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Buckwheat Cakes

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  3. 1 teaspoon soda
  4. Buttermilk
  5. Cornmeal

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. 3 c.
  2. buckwheat 1 t.
  3. salt yi c.
  4. cornmeal Add buttermilk to make thick batter.
  5. Set to rise over night in warm place.
  6. Next morning beat in sufficient buttermilk to make thin batter.
  7. Add 1 teaspoon soda and 1 tablespoon brown sugar.
  8. Bake after rising IS minutes.

Plating

Source not stated by archive.org
Credit

From Culinary echoes from Dixie (1914), printed page 123, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924000674188

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.