The Boston cooking-school cook book

by Fannie Merritt Farmer

Susie’s Spider Corn Cake

1¼ cups corn meal

2 cups sour milk

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

2 tablespoons butter

Mix soda, salt, and corn meal; gradually add eggs well beaten and milk. Heat frying-pan, grease sides and bottom of pan with butter, turn in the mixture, place on middle grate in hot oven, and cook twenty minutes.