Recipe: Old South Corn Bread (spoon bread) (Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, 1949)

OLD SOUTH CORN BREAD (SPOON BREAD)

1 teaspoon salt
1 cup white corn meal
1 cup boiling water
1/4 cup vinegar
1 3/4 cups sweet milk
2 eggs, well beaten
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1 teaspoon Arm & Hammer Brand or Cow Brand Baking Soda

Combine salt and corn meal. Add slowly to boiling water while stirring constantly to prevent lumping.

Combine vinegar and milk. Add 1 1/2 cups of the vinegar and milk to corn meal mixture; mix well. Add eggs and melted shortening. Stir until well blended.

Dissolve soda in remaining 1/2 cup of vinegar and milk. Add to corn meal mixture and stir until completely blended. Pour into greased 1 1/2-quart casserole.

Bake at 400 degrees F. (moderately hot oven) for 1 hour. Serve immediately with a spoon.

Makes 5 to 6 servings
Source:
Recipe Booklet - New Fashioned Old Fashioned Recipes, Church and Dwight Co., Inc., 1949