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		Some Uses of Maize Meal (Home Economics Advisory Leaflet, 1978, 10 p.)
			(introduction...)
			PREFACE
			MAIZE MEAL
			MAIZE MEAL RECIPES - FRIED MAIZE MEAL BREAD (PANCAKE SIZE)
			FRIED MAIZE MEAL BREAD (LOAF SIZE)
			HUSH PUPPIES (FRIED BREAD)
			MAIZE MEAL PORRIDGE
			MAIZE DODGERS (A BREAKFAST BREAD)
			MAIZE MEAL MUFFINS
			CORNMEAL FRITTERS
			CORN MEAL MUSH
			GREEN MAIZE PUDDING
			MAIZE BREAD
			MAIZE GRIDDIE CAKES
			MAIZE SOUP
			BREAD TOP OF STONE BAKING

MAIZE MEAL RECIPES - FRIED MAIZE MEAL BREAD (PANCAKE SIZE)

Ingredients:

2 cups posho maize meal, or use 1 cups maize meal and cup wheat flour

cups milk
2 teaspoons fat

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Method:

Sift maize meal, salt, baking powder and sugar together add eggs milk and fat. Put butter on a hot greased frying pan to make cakes three inches across. The pan is hot enough when the fat chars. Turn cakes when they are puffed and full of little bubbles Turn only once. Serve hot with butter or jam, This bread is often served with cooked vegetables.

Variation:

Place small amount of filling such as cooked fish, meat, cheese or vegetable in centre of each cake and fold over.