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                                 Corn Pone
 
 Recipe By     : Dr. Toy Nelson
 Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
 Categories    : Breads
 
   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
 --------  ------------  --------------------------------
    1      cup           corn meal
    1      teaspoon      salt
      3/4  cup           boiling water
    1      tablespoon    lard or fat
 
 combine the meal and salt and, while blending gradually add water.  Melt the
 fat in the baking pan.  After pan is greased, pour surplus into the mixture
 and blend.  
 The mix should not be more than one inch thick in the baking pan to start
 with.  It will rise very little. (to make it rise like corn bread, 2 teaspoons
 of baking powder would be needed) The pone will develop a rich, brown crunchy
 crust.  In this modern day it would take about 50-60 minutes in a 350 oven.It
 was usually baked in a “step oven” on the wood stove or fried on a griddle
 where a stove lid was removed. 
 Corn bread and corn pone was a staple in the mountaineer diet.  With greens,
 called “salit greens.”  meat and of course, cold milk from the spring house,
 this was good eating and friends were always welcome.
 
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