This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
1 quart flour.
1 pint milk.
1 tablespoonful butter, melted.
1 egg.
1 saltspoonful salt.
1 table-spoonful white sugar.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
1 dessertspoonful (equal to 2 teaspoonfuls) cream tartar, sifted in the flour.
Mix the beaten egg with the milk, then the butter, sugar, salt and soda; next, the flour. Beat well, and bake in buttered cake-mould. The oven should be quite hot, and very steady. Turn out, and cut in slices at table. Eat hot.
 
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