Special Recipes by Mary Elizabeth Brennen

Johnny Cake 

Salt to taste & Water, as mush needed for desired consistency

Flour 4 to 8 cups

Sugar ½ cup

Cream 1 tin

Crisco 1/4 block or 3 tablespoons

1 tablespoon Double Active Baking Powder

Crush Crisco in flour before adding other ingredients. Knead until nice and smooth. Put in baking dish. Stick with fork. Bake 330-350 degree until brown

Benny Cake

1 cup of bennie (Sesame Seeds)

Be sure to pick out small black pebbles or small rocks and dried leaves et. Wash and drain.

Place bennie in pot while wet. Keep stirring when dried out until bennie begin to pop up.

Add one cup water

1 ½ cups sugar

Hang cooking thermometer on pot and allow bennie to cook up to 250 - 260 degrees.

Wet cutting board with water while waiting for bennie to cook. When bennie reach 250 degrees spoon out out a board quickly so it won’t turn back to sugar.

Make 12 - 16 depending to size of spoon. Use wooden spoon.