Indian Bread

Ingredients

• Indian meal
• Cold water
• Salt
• Yeast
• Butter

Directions

1. Mix (as for a thick gruel) Indian meal and cold water; stir the mixture into boiling water, let it boil 1⁄2 hour.
2. Stir in a little salt; take it from the fire; let it remain until lukewarm, then stir in yeast and Indian meal, making it the consistency of common dough.
3. When light, take it out and put into buttered pans.
4. Let it remain a few minutes, then bake it about 2 1⁄2 hours.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Ujjen Rajkarnikar
Louisiana Anthology
October 4, 2023