| Corn Pone
1 cup corn meal
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 Tbs bacon drippings
1/2 cup milk
Mix corn meal, salt and baking powder.
Stir in bacon drippings and milk.
Grease a large, heavy skillet with bacon drippings.
Drop batter from a tablespoon, shaping into 4 pones. Brown on both
sides. Serve hot with lots of butter.
Pones, or flattened cakes of corn meal and water, were the basic, everyday
breads of southern tribes.
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