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Maize Roast

A historical recipe from No Animal Food, by Rupert H. Wheldon.

A historical recipe

No Animal Food; and Nutrition and Diet; with Vegetable Recipes, by Rupert H. Wheldon. Project Gutenberg eBook #22829.

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

Source and licence

From No Animal Food, by Rupert H. Wheldon. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #22829 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22829). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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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.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 8 ozs.
  2. corn meal, 1 large Spanish onion (chopped), 2 tablespoonfuls nut-milk, 1 dessertspoonful gravy essence.
  3. Cook onion;
  4. dissolve nut-milk thoroughly in about 1/2 pint water.
  5. Boil onion, nut-milk, and essence together two minutes, then mix all ingredients together, adding sufficient water to make into very soft batter;
  6. bake 40 minutes.