1912 'Fannie Farmer' Littleton Spider Corn Cake Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends | Glen And Friends Cooking

1912 'Fannie Farmer' Littleton Spider Corn Cake Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends
Today we are making a corn cake recipe (how is that different than a corn bread recipe?) from the 1912 Fannie Farmer cookbook. This is also known as a New England Spider Cake / New England Skillet Corn Cake - possibly because of the type of cast iron pot it was originally cooked in. Though others say the name stems from the spider web of milk baked into it.


Ingredients:
1 1/3 cups corn meal
1/3 cup flour
1 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon soda
2 eggs
2 cups sweet milk
¼ cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 ½ tablespoons butter


Method:
Mix and sift corn meal and flour and add sour milk mixed with soda, eggs, well beaten, one half the sweet milk, sugar, and salt.
Heat an iron frying pan, add butter, and, when melted, turn in mixture.
Pour over remaining milk and bake in a hot oven.
Cut in pie shaped pieces for serving.

*I used an oven that was 375ºF and cooked for about 45 minutes.

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