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Susie’s Spider Corn Cake

A historical breakfast recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 1¼ cups Corn Meal
  • 2 cups Sour Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tablespoons Butter

Make it

Method

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    Mix soda, salt, and corn meal; gradually add eggs well beaten and milk. Heat frying-pan, grease sides and bottom of pan with butter, turn in the mixture, place on middle grate in hot oven, and cook twenty minutes.

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Where this recipe comes from

Susie’s Spider Corn Cake, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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