Corn Meal Bread

Ingredients

• (1/4 cup) Piece of butter the size of an egg
• Pint of corn meal
• Two eggs
• New milk
• Spoonful of yeast (5ml)

Directions

Batter

1. Rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into a pint of corn meal.
2. Make it a batter with two eggs and some new milk.
3. Add a spoonful of yeast.. 

Cooking

1. Set it by the fire an hour to rise.
2. Butter little pans, fill them, and bake.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Paul W. Haire

Louisiana Anthology

July 19,2017