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Sour Milk Griddle Cakes

Name: Sour Milk Griddle Cakes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1½ cups wheat flour; ¾ teaspoon soda; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 cups sour milk or buttermilk; 1 egg; 2 tablespoons melted fat

Aida Boyer McAnn — The New Brunswick Cook Book (1938)

Prep5 min

Cook15 min

Total20 min

Makes4

Classic New Brunswick griddle cakes made with sour milk or buttermilk — light, slightly tangy pancakes beaten up quickly and cooked on a greased griddle. The 1938 cookbook notes that the clack of the wooden spoon mixing pancakes was one of the most distinctive sounds of the New Brunswick farmhouse.

Source: Aida Boyer McAnn — The New Brunswick Cook Book (1938)

Ingredients

1½ cups wheat flour
¾ teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cups sour milk or buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted fat

Instructions

Mix and sift the flour, salt, sugar, and soda.
Add the sour milk or buttermilk, then the well-beaten egg. Lastly, stir in the melted fat.
Beat the mixture thoroughly and bake at once on a hot, greased griddle.
Use two griddles if possible to speed up cooking.

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