Spider Corn-Cake

Original Instructions

1. 1

   Beat two eggs and one-fourth cup sugar together

2. 2

   Add one cup sweet milk and one cup of sour milk in which you have dissolved one teaspoonful soda

3. 3

   Add a teaspoonful of salt

4. 4

   Mix one and two-thirds cups of granulated corn meal and one-third cup flour with this

5. 5

   Put a spider or skillet on the range and when it is hot melt in two tablespoonfuls of butter

6. 6

   Turn the spider so that the butter can run up on the sides of the pan

7. 7

   Pour in the corn-cake mixture and add one more cup of sweet milk, but do not stir afterwards

8. 8

   Put this in the oven and bake from twenty to thirty-five minutes

9. 9

   When done, there should be a streak of custard through it