2 cup cornmeal
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup milk
1 butter
Directions
Combine cornmeal, baking soda, and salt; cut in shortening until
mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk and milk, stirring
just until dry ingreients are moistened. Form batter into eight 1/2
inch thick cakes. Place on a hot greased griddle. Bake at 400 degrees
for 15 minutes. Turn and bake an additional 15 minutes. Serve hot
with butter.
Servings: 8 servings
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Categories: Bread; Breads; Corn
The History of Recipes
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Interestingly, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to academics are some ancient tablets in Sumerian which describe the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making people feel blissful and exhilarated. Closer to modern times, we have a couple of books which date from the 1300s - a cookery book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books are nothing to do with the indian curry that we all know today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals prepared for the nobility of that period. During the succeeding few centuries, the rich families of Europe strove to serve the most exotic banquets, and as a consequence, chefs and their recipes were at a premium. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s that cookery and cookery books really came of age. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, trying out, and recording recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. Like it or not, the introduction of television brought us celebrity TV chefs and the accompanying recipe books. Which pretty much brings us up to date and the invention of the internet, permitting everybody to search through massive numbers of recipes like those on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
We hope you enjoy this Cherokee Corn Pones recipe.
