This section is from the book "Pipe Organ Cook Book", by Ladies of First Presbyterian Church Aledo, Illinois. Also available from Amazon: The Way to Cook.
Dissolve one-half teaspoonful of soda in 1 pint of sour milk; add 2 eggs well beaten, 1 tablespoonful of lard, salt to taste. Stir in enough flour to make a batter. Fry in butter and lard mixed. Mrs. Dora Thompson.
For about 1 quart of batter use one-half cup of yeast, mix buckwheat flour with corn meal in the proportion of three parts buckwheat to one of cornmeal, stirring together with luke warm water sufficient to make a rather thin batter, salting to taste. Prepare this at night, in the morning put in 2 tablespoonfuls sugar and a little soda. Save a little to start next night. Mrs. Mary J. McManus.
One pint cold mashed potatoes, I cup sweet milk, 3 eggs, a little salt. Mix thoroughly; add 1 cup sifted flour in which a teaspoonful of baking powder has been placed; beat well and drop from spoon on hot buttered griddle, fry a golden brown.
Cora Beard.
Two-thirds cup cold mashed potatoes, one-third cup light bread crumbs soaked in water or milk, press water out. Mix potatoes and bread together with one-half teaspoonful baking powder and pinch of salt. Have griddle hot and well buttered. Fry until a light brown, serve hot. Mrs. Low Brown.
 
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