From the "Cook County Cookery, a Treasury of South Georgia Recipes" which was compiled by 
Adel [GA] Garden Club, Adel, GA; printed by Adel News, Publishers, Adel, GA 1959.
 
"Poor Man's Cake"
2 eggs                                   1 c. plain flour
3 tbsp. bacon grease                     ½ tsp. soda
1 c. syrup                               ½ c. buttermilk
2 c. self-rising flour                   1 tsp grated nutmeg
 
Beat eggs, add syrup, bacon grease, flour and nutmeg. Lastly add ½ tsp soda in ½ cup buttermilk.  
Divide cake and baked in 2 round pans at 250º. Cake should be about 1" thick. Eat hot without icing. 
Cake recipe dates back to "Civil War Days"-
                                             [signed] Jennie Lamb Howell
                                              grandmother of Margaret (Jones) Jossey, my late
                                              1st cousin.
 
Diane, my Dad, Harry Lee HOWELL, who was the youngest living child born to Lillian Eugenia 
(LAMB) HOWELL, always said he believed that was his Mother's signature at the bottom of the 
Cake recipe - My Mother had bought 3 copies of the Cook Book for my sister, for me & for herself. 
Lillian Eugenia (LAMB) was b 14 Sept 1859 either Berrien or Clinch Co, GA - d 10 Feb 1950, 
Lakeland, Lanier Co, GA (formerly known as Milltown, Berrien Co, GA). 
"Jenny" (LAMB)  was only child of Statira Ann E. (LOVEJOY) mar 1858 to John Carroll LAMB, 
Maj. CSA,KIA b 1832 NC - d 13 July 1863 MS.
She had been called "Jenny" by the Methodist minister, Rev. Will TALLEY for the singer famous 
during the times according to a paternal aunt.







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