This section is from the book "More Recipes For Fifty", by Frances Lowe Smith. Also available from Amazon: More Recipes For Fifty.
1 1/2 quarts corn meal
1 1/2 quarts pastry flour
2 quarts boiling water
8 tbspns. baking powder
1 cup corn syrup 3/4 cup shortening
2 tablespoons salt 6 eggs
3 cups raisins
Wash and dry the seeded raisins, and mix with a little of the measured flour. Scald meal with hot water; add salt, corn syrup, and shortening; cool, and add well-beaten yolks. Sift flour and baking powder together; combine mixtures, beat well, and add raisins. Fold in stiffly beaten whites. Bake forty-five minutes or more in rather hot oven. Five and one-fourth cups barley flour may be used in place of pastry flour.
 
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