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Buckwheat Griddle Cakes, in Rhyme
For ordinary buckwheat cakes, we will give one in rhyme, from one of the muses of the Detroit Free Press, which may be relied upon as safe to follow:
If you fine buckwheat cakes would make One quart of buckwheat flour take; Four table-spoonfuls then of yeast; Of salt one tea-spoonful at least; One handful Indian meal and two Good table-spoonfuls of real New Orleans molasses, then enough Warm water to make of the stuff A batter thin. Beat very well; Set it to rise where warmth do dwell. If in the morning, it should be The least bit sour, stir in free A very little soda that Is first dissolved in water hot,
Mix in an earthen crock, and leave
Each morn a cupful in to give A sponge for the next night, so you Need not get fresh yeast to renew.
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