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Grandma Jemima's Pioneer Johnny Cakes Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
2 tablepoons molasses
2 eggs (optional for fluffy cake)
Directions:
Directions:
Combine the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk and molasses. Add eggs if desired. Cook in a hot greased cast iron pan for about 20 minutes on high heat.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Have you made some pioneer recipes your ancestors made many years ago? They didn’t have the ingredients we have today so they had to make do with what they had. And make do is what they did for sure. They had to fill the belly because they were traveling in covered wagons, in most cases, with limited access to the General Store, back in the day.

Plus even when they got to their destination it could have been months or years before regular food supplies or merchant stores were readily available to them.
These pioneer recipes are pretty well known,
Of course, if you cook from scratch you know several recipes to get you by if the grocery stores are shut down for days, weeks, or months.
Typical Ingredients
Cornmeal
Salt
Baking Soda
Molasses
Buttermilk
Eggs
Rice
Raisins
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Baking Powder
Oil/Lard
Flour
Brown Sugar (1/4 cup molasses per one cup white sugar)
Potatoes
Milk or Cream

 

 

 

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