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Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients & Directions


4 c Lukewarm water Buckwheat flour
1/2 Cake dry yeast 1 tb Brown sugar or molasses
OR 1/2 cake compressed 1 1/2 ts Salt
-yeast 1/4 ts Baking soda

Soften yeast in 1 cup water. Add sugar, salt, 3 cups water, and
sufficient buckwheat flour to make a thin batter. Cover and let rise
overnight in a warm place. In the morning add baking soda which has
been dissolved in 1 tablespoon of cold water. Beat thoroughly. Bake
on hot griddle. One-half cup of the batter may be saved and used to
start a second quantity of batter. The Household Searchlight – 1941

Yields
6 servings