This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
1 pint buttermilk.
2 well-beaten eggs.
1 teaspoonful soda. A pinch of salt.
Flour sufficient to make a thin batter that will spread on the griddle. Bake the cakes the size of a breakfast plate.
1 quart of sweet milk, let boil up. Dissolve 1 table-spoonful of corn-starch in a little cold milk or water. Add a pinch of salt; a lump of butter the size of a small egg. Stir into the boiling milk. Sweeten to taste and flavor with lemon extract.
Have this sauce ready, and as the cakes are baked place them in a deep dish, turning sauce over each cake as they are taken from the griddle, placing one over the other Cut in triangular pieces to serve.
To 3 cupfuls of buttermilk add 3 tablespoon-fuls of rich cream and a small quantity of sugar. Stir in flour until it is the consistency of paste for doughnuts. Roll out the size of a breakfast plate and fry one at a time. As each cake comes from the fire, cover it with apple sauce made from tart apples, sweetened to taste, and spiced with nutmeg or cinnamon, and continue the process until sufficient.
 
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