Hoe Cake
4 cups white corn meal 1 teaspoon salt Boiling water Mix salt and meal, add boiling water to make a stiff batter. Moisten hands in cold water. Take a tablespoon of the batter in your hand and press it into a thin round cake. If you have an open fire, have before it an oak plank, well heated. Place the cakes on the board in front of the fire. Bake on one side and turn and bake on the other until thoroughly done, about three-quarters of an hour. These can also be baked on a griddle on top of the fire. When done pull apart, butter and send to the table hot. Good.--Mrs. Rorer. Thin Corn Cake, called "Splits." 1 cup yellow corn meal 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 1/2 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon sugar Mix and sift the dry ingredients, scald with the boiling water and beat thoroughly. Add the butter and when well mixed spread very thin on buttered tin sheets. Bake slowly about twenty minutes. Pull apart and butter while hot.