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Northern Johnny Cakes Recipe Ingredients:
2
cups cornmeal Cook together the cornmeal, milk, fat, sugar and salt
on very
low temperature for 20 minutes. Stir often. Cook and add the well
beaten eggs and baking soda which was dissolved in
water. Bake at 350 degrees in a shallow
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