Corn Meal Cakes

 Ingredients

• 1 pound of sugar
• 1/2 pound of butter
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 pound of meal
• 4 eggs
• 1 cupful of flour

Directions

1. Sift the meal.
2. Take one cupful of meal and mix it with a cupful of flour.
3. Add in the rest of the ingredients and proceed to beat up the mixture.
4. Use a spoon to drop the mixture on greased pans and cook in quick oven.

— Miss Mary Wilkinson

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samuel Pitts
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021