Griddle Cake Recipes

~Griddle Cake Recipes~

Rice Griddle Cakes

1 cup boiled rice (leftover cooked rice)
1 cup scalded milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
few grains salt
1 tablespoon butter
2 eggs beaten separately
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

Mix the first six ingredients, add the beaten yolks of eggs, the flour, and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Cook as other griddle cakes.

Corn Meal Griddle Cakes

1 cup cornmeal
2 cups boiling water
1 1/4 cup milk
2 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons melted butter

Add the corn meal to the boiling water and boil five minutes. Let stand about a30 minutes, add the milk, well beaten egg, mixed and sifted dry ingredients and melted butter. Beat. Cook same as other griddle cakes.

Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes

1 1/2 cups stale bread crumbs
1 1/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/ 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Add milk and butter to crumbs and soak until crumbs are soft. Add eggs well beaten, then flour, salt and baking powder mixed and sifted. Beat. Cook according to general directions.

Velvet Griddle Cakes

2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
2 beaten egg yolks
2 cups milk
2 beaten egg whites

Mix and sift dry ingredients, add the yolks mixed with milk. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites,. Drop by spoonfuls onto a well greased griddle. Brown on one side, turn and brown on the other.


GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR COOKING GRIDDLE CAKES

Use a frying pan or griddle.
Keep th epan hot without burning the cakes.
A piece of slt pork or beef fat placed on a fork, or butter, may be used to grease the pan. A soapstone or aluminum griddle, however, must never be greased.
Let the fat begin to smoke before cooking the cakes.
Pour the mixture from the tip of the spoon; cook on one side.
When puffed full of bubbles and cooked on the edges, turn and cook on the other side.
If large bubbles form at once to the top of the cakes, the griddle is too hot.

From one of my favorite older cookery books:

'The Housewife's Cook Book'
Lilla Fritch, A.B.
copy right 1917