Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Indian Slapjack

So Good! These are creps made with corn, or "Indian" meal. They are my favorite breakfast food so far. Also good for supper and dinner. This recipe makes enough to feed the regiment.

Indian Slapjack.
One quart of milk, 1 pint of indian meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons flour, little salt, beat together, baked on griddles, or fry in a dry pan, or baked in a pan which has been rub'd with suet, lard or butter. 


  • Milk 4 cups
  • White (flint) corn meal 2 cups
  • Eggs 4 "large" or 3 "super jumbo"
  • Flour 1/2 cup
  • Salt
  • Butter
  1. Soak the corn in the milk for a few minutes, add the eggs flour and salt. 
  2. Heat up your pan and melt a spoon of butter in it. Pour in your batter, enough to just about fill the pan. Flip. Eat. Repeat. 
Observations:

When first experimenting with these, I tried to cook them all the different ways she suggests. They come out the best when you cook them on the griddle with lots of butter. It gets a little confusing when you don't quite know the difference between a griddle and a pan, or what she means by frying or baking. Am I supposed to put the griddle in the oven? How do you fry something without fat? I am thinking that a pan has sides, where a griddle does not. Frying is on the hearth, where baking is on the oven. 


1 comment:

  1. Hi, Mary,

    I'm going to have to try this! I enjoyed meeting you at Coggeshall Farm last Thursday. sincerely, Beth

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