Corn Dodgers.

A dish — corn meal and sugar carry it.

Bread In Various Forms.

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • 3 gills of corn meal
  • 1/2 teaspoonful of salt
  • 1 tablespoonful of sugar
  • 1 teaspoonful of butter
  • 1/2 pint of boiling water, generous
  • Sausage or pork fat, or any good drippings for frying
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1 teaspoonful of butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Put the meal, salt, sugar, and butter in a bowl and pour the boiling water on the mixture. Beat the batter vigorously for two or three minutes; then shape it with the hands into small, flat cakes. Have in the frying-pan hot fat to the depth of half an inch. When it is smoking hot, put in the cakes and fry on one side until brown, then turn and brown on the other side. Serve very hot.

Source

Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three (Parloa, Maria, 1843-1909, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States