This section is from the book "Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery", by Miss Leslie. Also available from Amazon: Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery.
Mix a quart of bran with a handful of wheat flour, and a level tea-spoonful of salt. Pour in sufficient milk-warm water to make a thick batter. Add two table-spoonfuls of brewer's yeast, or three, if home-made; and stir it very hard. Cover it, and set it by the fire to rise. Half an hour before you begin to bake, you may add a salt-spoonful of soda, melted in a little warm water. Bake it like buckwheat cakes, on a griddle.
 
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