This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
2/3 cup common yellow corn meal good 1/3 cup white flour 1-2 teaspns. sugar salt
1 1/3 cup milk or water or half of each 1 large egg
1 teaspn. oil or melted butter
Mix corn meal and flour and heat in oven, add sugar and salt and pour boiling liquid over, stir rapidly until smooth, add oil and yolk of egg, then stiffly-beaten white; drop in spoonfuls on hot oiled pan; bake in quite hot oven.
1 cup yellow granular corn meal large 1/2 cup white flour 1/2 tablespn. sugar salt
2 3/4-3 cups boiling milk or water, or half of each
1 large or 2 small eggs Mix and bake as with common meal. If the liquid is not rich milk, use 1 tablespn. oil or melted butter.
Use 3/4-1 cup of nut meal or butter and all water for Nut Corn Dodgers.
1 cup corn meal 1 cup boiling water
1/2 teaspn. salt 1 tablespn. oil or melted butter
Pour boiling water over corn meal and salt in inner cup of double boiler; stir smooth, cook 1 hr., add oil, drop by spoonfuls on oiled griddle, dip fingers in cold water and pat down flat; when browned put a dot of butter or a little oil on top of each and turn. Serve with poached eggs if desired.
 
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