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

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 ^2 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 15 minutes.

Plating

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Credit

From Culinary echoes from Dixie (1914), printed page 123, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/culinaryechoesfr00vaug

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.