This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
2 cups corn meal 12 ounces. 2 cups water.
Lard size of an egg.
2 eggs. Little salt.
1 teaspoon baking bowder.
Boil halt the water {or milk) and scald the meal with it, add the other ingredi-ents, the powder last.
Note. - Buttermilk and soda can be used instead of baking powder in the several kinds of batter cakes, the proportions are 1 teaspoonful soda to 2 cups butter milk-which should be bout enough to counteract that amount.
 
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