Cornmeal Gems

Ingredients

• One-half a cup of cornmeal
• one cup of flour
• three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• one tablespoonful of melted butter
• one-half a teaspoonful of salt
• three-quarters of a cup of milk
• one egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix and bake as Mountain muffins.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 239. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cornmeal Gems. One-Ealf a cup of cornmeal, one cup of flour, three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, one tablespoonful of sugar, one table- spoonful of melted butter, one-half a teaspoonful of salt, three- quarters of a cup of milk, one egg. Mix and bake as Mountain muffins. Hominy Gems. One-quarter cup of hominy, one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one-half a cup boiling water, one cup scalded milk, one cup cornmeal, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of butter, two eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add hominy mixed with salt to boiling water and let stand until hominy absorbs water. Add scalded milk to cornmeal, then add sugar and butter. Combine mixtures, cool slightly, add yolks of eggs beaten until thick, and whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Sift in baking powder and beat thoroughly. Bake in hot buttered gem pans. Berkshire Muffins. One-half a cup of cornmeal, one-half cup of flour, one-half a cup of cooked rice, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half a teaspoonful of salt, two-thirds cup of scalded milk (scant), one egg, one tablespoonful of melted butter, three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder. Turn scalded milk on meal, let stand five minutes; add rice and flour mixed, and stiffen with remaining dry ingredients. Add yolk of egg well beaten, butter, and white of egg beaten stiff and dry. STANDARD COOKERY. 351 Golden Corn Cake. One-quarter of a cup of cornmeal, one and a quarter cups of flour, one-quarter cup of sugar, five teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one cup of milk, one egg, one or two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk, egg well beaten, and butter; bake in shallow buttered pan in hot oven twenty min- utes. Corn Cake (Sweetened with Molasses). One cup of cornmeal, three-quarters of a cup of flour, three and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter cup of molasses, three-quarters of a cup of milk

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