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Cracklin Bread

A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).

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A historical recipe

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

United States

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one quart sifted corn meal
  2. a teacup of cracklins
  3. a teaspoonful of salt

Method

  1. Take one quart sifted corn meal and a teacup of cracklins.
  2. Rub the latter in the meal as fine as you can.
  3. Add a teaspoonful of salt and make up with warm water into a stiff dough.
  4. Make into pones, and eat hot.--Mrs.
  5. P.
  6. W.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.