Corn Pone

This came from a handwritten recipe in Aunt Gussie's recipe index file. From Flora Shelton, it is dated Sept. 18, 1961.

2 cups corn meal
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp. melted shortening (or butter?)
1-1/2 cups boiling water


Mix ingredients and form into "pones".**
Bake at 425° for 25 minutes.

**pone /pōn/ noun: unleavened cornbread in the form of flat oval cakes or loaves, originally as prepared with water by North American Indians and cooked in hot ashes. "she used to come into town weekly to sell her pone"