This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
2 cups flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons sugar.
1 teaspoon soda.
Mix in order given, beat well. Heat a griddle; when hissing hot, grease with piece of salt pork on end of fork. Drop a tablespoon of batter from tip end of spoon on hot griddle. When full of bubbles, turn; when cooked on both sides, serve on hot plate.
If sour milk is very rich, the eggs may be omitted.
1 cup graham.
½ cup flour.
1 tablespoon sugar.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
2 eggs.
1¼ cups milk.
1 teaspocm salt.
Scald milk, and pour on to graham flour. When cold, add remaining ingredients; beat well and cook as Griddle Cakes.
2 cups soft bread crumbs 2 cups scalded milk 1 teaspoon salt.
1 cup flour.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
Pour milk on to bread crumbs and let stand several hours. Add dry ingredients, mixed and sifted, yolks and whites beaten separately and cook as Griddle Cakes.
1 cup cooked rice.
1 cup milk scalded 1½ cups flour.
2 eggs.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon sugar.
1 tablespoon melted butter.
1 cup milk.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
Pour scalded milk on to rice; let stand over night. Add dry ingredients, eggs well beaten, and last of all, cold milk. Beat well and cook as Griddle Cakes.
Substitute hominy for boiled rice, and cook as Rice Griddle Cakes.
1½ cups flour or entire wheat 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt.
1 cup milk.
1 egg.
2 tablespoons melted butter.
Mix and sift dry ingredients, add yolks well beaten, milk, whites well beaten, and melted butter. Cook as Griddle Cakes.
2 cups buckwheat.
½ cup corn meal or white flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
¼ cup molasses.
¼ cup lukewarm water.
2 cups warm water 1 teaspoon soda.
Mix buckwheat, corn meal, and salt; add dissolved yeast cake, molasses and water; beat well. Let rise over night. In the morning beat, add soda, beat, and fry.
A pitcher is the most convenient dish for raising these cakes.
1½ cups Indian meal 1½ cups flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons sugar.
4 tablespoons butter ½ yeast cake dissolved in one quarter cup lukewarm water 3 cups scalded milk.
Scald meal with milk; add butter, and when lukewarm, add remaining ingredients; let mixture rise over night. In the morning cook as Griddle Cakes.
2 cups flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.
3 tablespoons melted butter 1⅓ cups milk 3 eggs.
Sift dry ingredients; add yolks well beaten, milk, butter and stiffly beaten whites. Beat well and cook on hot waffle iron. The waffle iron should be heated fifteen or twenty minutes before using and greased thoroughly with salt Dork fat.
2 cups raised bread dough 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
Roll dough to one half inch in thickness, sprinkle with cinnamon, cut in diamonds; raise; fry in deep fat; serve with sirup.
4 eggs ⅛ teaspoon salt.
4 tablespoons flour 4 tablespoons milk.
Beat yolks until lemon colored and thick; add flour and salt. Cut and fold into this mixture, the beaten whites. Add milk; pour into greased baking dish. Bake in moderate oven, twenty to thirty minutes. Serve immediately.
 
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