Johnny Cake 1

One pt. corn meal, 1 teacupful sugar, 1 pt. milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful butter, salt to taste, 1 teaspoonful dissolved saleratus.

Mix the butter and sugar with the meal; boil half the milk. Add the dissolved saleratus and the eggs, after they have been well beaten, to the remaining half of the cold milk. Pour the boiling milk over the meal and let it cool. Then add the cold milk and salera tus. Bake in a shallow pan.

Johnny Cake 2

One pint of flour, 1 pint of corn meal (yellow is best), 1 pint of sweet milk, 2 large tablespoonfuls of molasses, a teaspoonful of salt, 2 well-beaten eggs, and 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Beat thoroughly, and when ready to bake add two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Have your pans well greased and warm, and bake in quick oven about twenty-five minutes.