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The basic recipe for biscuit dough is found in all cook books and most pamphlets. It is repeated at the beginning of this section on hot, toothsome stuff because of the many truly cheap and toothsome dishes it will father, and the more important fact that any amateur can make them. PLAIN MUFFINS ^ CUP SHORTENING }4 TEASPOON SALT ^ CUP SUGAR 4 TEASPOONS BAKING POWDER I EGG, WELL BEATEN 1 CUPS FLOUR J/i CUP MILK Cream shortening and sugar and add beaten egg. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add, alternately with milk, to first mixture. Drop in greased muffin pans and bake 30 minutes in hot oven (40O°F.). Huckleberries, blueberries or blackberries are fine for baking in a muffin batter. Fill greased muffin pans % full of alternate layers of berries and batter, putting in a spoon of batter first. Bake like plain muffins. QUICK GRAHAM MUFFINS I CUP FLOUR % TEASPOON SALT 1 CUP GRAHAM FLOUR 2 TABLESPOONS BUTTER 4 TEASPOONS BAKING POWDER ^ CUP MILK Sift dry ingredients together, returning the bran removed by sifting. Work in butter and stir in milk quickly. Drop by spoonfuls in greased muffin pans and bake 25 minutes in hot oven (400° F.). CORN MUFFINS )/2 CUP CORNMEAL >^ TEASPOON SALT }4. CUP FLOUR 2 TEASPOONS SUGAR 2 TEASPOONS BAKING POWDER J^ CUP MILK (aBOUt) I EGG Grease muffin pans, leaving a teaspoon of melted lard in one. Mix together dry ingredients and add milk to make a thick batter. Then break in egg and beat 3 minutes (without cheating). Pour grease from muffin pan into mixture, stir quickly and fill pans nearly full. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven (450° F.). CORN PONE Sift I quart of corn meal with i teaspoon salt and add enough cold water to work it into a soft dough. Heat in a baking pan and sprinkle with bran sifted from meal. Mold dough into oblong cakes an inch thick at ends, a little thicker at middle, and put in pan, pressing so finger marks show. Bake 20 minutes in hot oven. Save up butter to pile on these and drizzle with honey. HOT stuff! 125 ENGLISH SCONES I CUP FLOUR I TABLESPOON GRATED ORANGE PEEL I TEASPOON BAKING POWDER 3 TABLESPOONS BUTTER X TEASPOON SALT yi CUP CURRANTS I TABLESPOON BROWN SUGAR ^ CUP MILK Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar; add peel and work in butter with finger tips or knife, add currants and mix quickly as possible to a soft dough with milk. Pat into sheet on floured board, cut in small triangles and lay on buttered baking sheet. Bake 12 minutes in moderately hot oven (375° F.). Men leave home for food like this, but you won't have to, now that you've got the recipe. If the wife's too rushed, make some scones yourself, anyway on Sunday. And try them with a pot of tea, for that's what they're made to go with. BRAN MUFFINS 3 TABLESPOONS SHORTENING I CUP BRAN I TABLESPOON SUGAR I CUP WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR I EGG, WELL BEATEN I TEASPOON SALT 1/i CUP MILK I TABLESPOON BAKING POWDER Mix together dry ingredients. Add milk to beaten egg and stir into dry mixture, beat well and add melted shortening. Turn into buttered muffin pans and bake 20 to 25 minutes in moderately hot oven (375° F.).