This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
Sour Milk Griddle-cakes
2 1/2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups Sour milk 1 1/4 teaspoons soda
1 egg
Mix and sift flour, salt, and soda; add sour milk, and egg well beaten. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased hot griddle; cook on one side. When puffed, full of bubbles, and cooked on edges, turn, and cook other side. Serve with butter and maple syrup.
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar 2 cups milk l egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
Mix and sift dry ingredients; beat egg, add milk, and pour slowly on first mixture. Beat thoroughly, and add butter. Cook same as Sour Milk Griddle-cakes. Begin cooking cakes at once or more baking powder will be required.
1/2 cup entire wheat flour 1 cup flour
3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar l egg
1 1/4 cups milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
Prepare and cook same as Sweet Milk Griddle-cakes.
2 cups flour
1/2 cup corn meal
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups milk l egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
Add meal to boiling water, and boil five minutes; turn into bowl, add milk, and remaining dry ingredients mixed and sifted, then the egg well beaten, and butter. Cook same as other griddle-cakes.
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cold cooked rice
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups milk l egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Work in rice with tips of fingers; add egg well beaten, milk, and butter. Cook same as other griddle-cakes.
1 cup milk
1 cup warm boiled rice
1/2 teaspoon salt
Yolks 2 eggs
Whites 2 eggs
1 tablespoon melted butter
7/8 cup flour
Pour milk over rice and salt, add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon color, butter, flour, and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry.
1 1/2 cups fine stale bread crumbs 1 1/2 cups scalded milk 2 tablespoons butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
Add milk and butter to crumbs, and soak until crumbs are soft; add eggs well beaten, then flour, salt, and baking powder mixed and sifted. Cook same as other griddle-cakes.
1/3 cup fine bread crumbs 2 cups scalded milk 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 yeast cake
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 3/4 cups buckwheat flour
1 tablespoon molasses
Pour milk over crumbs, and soak thirty minutes; add salt, yeast cake dissolved in lukewarm water, and buckwheat to make a batter thin enough to pour. Let rise over night; in the morning, stir well, add molasses, one-fourth teaspoon soda dissolved in one-fourth cup lukewarm water, and cook same as griddle-cakes. Save enough batter to raise another mixing, instead of using yeast cake; it will require one-half cup.
 
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