Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — Aunt Jerusha’s No-Cake. [ARTICLE]

Aunt Jerusha’s No-Cake.

“You never hearn o’ no-cake? ' Wai, that was parched corn paounded up in a mortar an’ eat wi’ milk es they had it, an’ es they hedn’t jest mixed up wi* water. They I’arnt that of the Injins, an’ they ’lowed it ’ould stan’ by a man longer’n any other Injun corn fixin’s. Then they uster make samp in the plumpin’ mill, big mortars they was, ’at went wi’ a spring pole, an’ they’d change off onto camp when they got sick o’ no-cake. Hasty puddin’ an’ johnny-cake they couldn’t hev, ’thout gittin’ the corn ground tu a reg’lar mill, an’ them was mebby forty .miles off.” Rowland Robinson’s Danvis Folks.