Johnny Cake

I added the recipe in https://www.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipes/comments/1x9k6ip/cornmeal_cake/ . Posting to include the picture of the recipe. Johnny Cake is a cornbread cake that's definitely not cornbread. It's sweeter and lighter. You probably can swap melted butter in for the oil, and if you want lower sugar and salt those are easily adjusted.

When I asked my dad (not for the first time apparently, because I found this recipe in our loose collection that lives next to the cookbooks), he hadn't made it in so long that he wasn't sure where it came from.

If you want to make this vegan, the milk and egg should be replaceable pretty easily with standard non-dairy milk and egg replacers. I have not done any testing on replacements though.

Johnny Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 c corn meal
• 2 c flour
• 2 t baking soda
• 1 1/2 t salt (or 1 t for less)
• 1 1/2 c sugar (or 1 c for less)
• 2 Tb lemon juice
• 2 c sour milk (can use regular/sweet)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c oil
• honey/butter for serving

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Grease and flour 9×13 pan.
3. Mix/Sift dry ingredients together.
4. Beat eggs.
5. Add other wet ingredients to eggs and mix well.
6. Mix in dry ingredients.
7. Bake for ~45 min