This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
2 heaping cups white Indian meal. 1 heaping cup flour.
3 eggs - whites and yolks beaten separately. 2 1/2 cups of milk.
1 large table-spoonful of butter - melted, but not hot. 1 large table-spoonful white sugar.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar, sifted with the flour, and added the last thing.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
Bake steadily, but not too fast, in a well-greased mould. Turn out, when done, upon a plate, and eat at once, cutting it into slices as you would cake.
After twelve years' trial of this receipt, I have come to the conclusion that there is no better or more reliable rule for the manufacture of corn-bread. In all that time, there has hardly been a Sunday morning, winter or summer, when the family was at home, on which a loaf of this bread has not graced my breakfast-table, and unless when, through negligence, it has been slightly scorched or underdone, I have never known it to come short of excellence.
In cutting corn-bread, do not forget to hold the knife perpendicularly, that the spongy interior of the loaf may not be crushed into heaviness. Very good corn-bread is often ruined by neglect of this precaution.
 
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