Need a good recipe for johnny cakes

Lazarus
  • Posted by: Lazarus
  • April 22, 2013
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cookbookchick April 23, 2013
I've bought Rhode Island white corn meal from graysgristmill.com. Their Johnnycake recipe is on the bag and also on their website.
 
susan G. April 23, 2013
There is a 1937 Rhode Island law requiring that jonnycakes be made with whitecap flint corn grown in RI. The original came from the Narragansett Indians. Recipes in The Cornbread Gospels are made with 1)cornmeal, milk or water, salt; 2) cornmeal, salt, boiling water, 1 egg; 3)#2 + sugar, milk and butter.
 
irinaleibo April 23, 2013
I don't know what you are calling Johnny Cake but in the Caribbean they are not like that first picture.
http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/bread/biscuits/bahamian-johnny-cake.html
Best Johnny Cake I ever tasted was in the Bahamas and this is after living in Sint Maarten and traveling all over the caribbean.
It's more like a biscuit!
Cheers
irina
 
aargersi April 23, 2013
Here's a savory option!
http://food52.com/recipes/16939-johnny-on-the-bayou
 
deblenares April 23, 2013
In case you want to see a genuine, old-timey recipe, here's one from the Park Street Methodist Episcopal Church (Lewiston, M. Ladies' Aid Society. (1908). Cook book. Lewiston, Me.: The Ladies' Aid Society (p.28):
1 1/2 cups sour milk
1/2 cup molasses
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup flour
2 cups corn meal
courtesy of the Hathi Trust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433049232097
 
petitbleu April 23, 2013
Joy of Cooking also has a good one--it's pretty bare-bones, but tasty.
 
susan G. April 22, 2013
The Cornbread Gospels, Crescent Dragonwagon is a gold mine for corn meal and has my favorite jonnycake.
 
sdebrango April 22, 2013
Here is one, they sound really good http://food52.com/recipes/16965-my-johnny-cakes
 
Lazarus April 22, 2013
Thanks! They do look good.
 
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