Ash Cake

Contributed by Mrs. Ben C. Fisher

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cornmeal 

• 1 cup buttermilk 

• 3.4 teaspoon soda 

• 1/3 cup fat 

• 1 teaspoon salt 

• Enough water to make a thick dough 

Directions: 1. Have a good hot fire. Pull out the ashes and make a nest-like place in the ashes, large enough to accommodate the dough.

2. Brush ashes down to the hearth.

3. Put your dough into the nes…