Name: Sweet Johnny Cake
Yield: Yield: Two 7-inch Johnny Cakes.
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1¼ cups white cornmeal; 4 tablespoons unsalted butter; 1¼ cups all-purpose flour; 3 eggs; 1 egg white; 1 tablespoon water; 4 tablespoons brown sugar; 1½ teaspoons grated nutmeg

Preparation info

Yield:
Two 7 inch
Johnny Cakes.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

About

Philadelphia confectioner James Parkinson put out a call for Sweet Johnny Cake in 1878 in answer to a request for the rare recipe by one of the correspondents to The Confectioners’ Journal, which he helped edit.¹¹ A black cook from Hagerstown, Maryland, identified only as “Sam,” responded. This is Sam’s recipe.

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