2 cups Indian meal—white. That known as “corn-flour” is best.
1 scant cup flour.
1 table-spoonful butter.
1 table-spoonful brown sugar, or molasses.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little hot milk.
1 teaspoonful salt.
2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately.
Scald the meal over night with the hot milk. Put with this the butter and sugar. Cover and let it stand until morning. Add the yolks of the eggs, the salt and flour. If the batter has thickened up too much, thin with cold milk, before stirring in the soda. The whites should go in last, and be whipped in lightly.
These are the “cakes trimmed with lace” of which we read in Mrs. Whitney’s always charming—“We Girls.”