1183 | Buckwheat Cakes.
—Dilute one drachm of compressed yeast with a gill of lukewarm water, and let it rest for ten minutes. Add it to a half pound of buckwheat flour in a basin, pouring in a pint of cold water, and season with a light pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly with the spatula, cover the basin with a cloth, and let rest for four hours.
Have a griddle large enough to hold six cakes. Grease lightly with a piece of fat pork-rind, and place it on a hot stove. Pour half of the batter into the six sections of the griddle, distributing it evenly. Bake two and a half minutes, turn over and bake two and a half minutes longer. Heap them on a hot dessert-dish. Make the other six exactly the same way. Send to the table with honey or maple sugar separately.