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RICE JOURNEY, OR JOHNNY CAKE.
BOIL a pint of rice quite soft, with a tea-spoonful of salt; mix with it while
hot a large spoonful of butter, and spread it on a dish to cool; when perfectly
cold, add a pint of rice flour and half a pint of milk--beat them all together
till well mingled. Take the middle part of the head of a barrel, make it quite
clean, wet it, and put on the mixture about an inch thick, smooth with a spoon,
and baste it with a little milk; set the board aslant before clear coals; when
sufficiently baked, slip a thread under the cake and turn it: baste and bake
that side in a similar manner, split it, and butter while hot. Small homony
boiled and mixed with rice flour, is better than all rice; and if baked very
thin, and afterwards toasted and buttered, it is nearly as good as cassada
bread.
PUDDINGS.
OBSERVATIONS ON PUDDINGS AND CAKES.
THE salt should always be washed from butter, when it is to be used in any thing
that has sugar for an ingredient, and also from that which is melted to grease
any kind of mould for baking--otherwise, there will be a disagreeable salt taste
on the outer side of the article baked. Raisins should be stoned and cut in two,
and have some flour sifted over them--stir them gently in the flour, and take
them out free from lumps; the small quantity that adheres to them, will
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