This section is from the book "The Appledore Cook Book", by M. Parloa. Also available from Amazon: The Appledore cook book.
Three well-beaten eggs, one pint of new milk, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar, and rye enough to make a stiff batter; half fill earthen cups, put them in an old pan (the one you use for baking potatoes), set in the oven, and bake one hour.
Flour drop cakes are made the same as rye, only do not hare the batter so thick.
One pint of new milk, four eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, half a cup of butter, and four and a half of flour. Beat the eggs to a froth, melt the butter and turn upon the eggs with the milk and sugar; then stir in the flour, and bake in earthen cups one hour.
Graham drop cakes are made the same as rye, with the addition of half a cup of sugar.
 
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