Oven Pone
Whole Grain Recipe
By Fitness and Freebies
A truly Southern Style bread baked in a wood cook stove. Made with cornmeal, New Orleans molasses, a bit of sugar and salt with all purpose flour pulling it all together.
Recipe Ingredients
Cold water
4 quarts sifted cornmeal
1/2 cup *New Orleans molasses
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 cup all purpose flour
*New Orleans molasses are also known as blackstrap molasses. Even though blackstrap molasses is made from the same foods from which we derive sugar, it is probably the most nutritious sweetener you can buy. Can be purchased in organic form.
Recipe Directions
Add enough cold water to cornmeal to make a soft batter.
Scald well, mashing the lumps.
Add New Orleans molasses, sugar, salt, and flour.
Grease Dutch oven well, and put in pone mixture.
Put in oven of wood cook stove and let bake from 5 to 6 hours with a good fire.
Then open your stove and let the pone remain until morning.
Before you go to bed, or about 11 o'clock, put another stick of wood on.
Recipe Yields: 1 Serving Oven Pone.
