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An Old Recipe for Oven Pone - Call It Delmarvalous

Make An Old Recipe for Oven Pone - Call It Delmarvalous at home with Cold Water, Cornmeal, New Orleans Molasses, Sugar, and Salt. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

Illustrative photo

Ingredients

• Cold Water
• 4 qt
• 1/2 cup
• 1/4 cup
• 1 tbsp
• 1 cup

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Add enough cold water to cornmeal to make a soft batter.

2. 2

   Scald well, mashing the lumps.

3. 3

   Add New Orleans molasses, sugar, salt, and flour.

4. 4

   Dutch oven well, and put in pone mixture.

5. 5

   Put in oven of wood cook stove and let bake from 5 to 6 hours with a good fire.

6. 6

   Then open your stove and let the pone remain until morning.

7. 7

   Before you go to bed, or about 11 o'clock, put another stick of wood on.

8. 8

   Reprinted with kind permission from "Call It Delmarvalous" by Virginia

9. 9

   Tanzer, EPM Publications, Mclean, VA, c. 1983.

10. 10

    Oct 18, 1997