Muffins

Ingredients

• % cupful butter
• 6 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• % cupful sugar
• 2 eggs
• y2 teaspoonful salt
• 2 cupfuls milk
• 4 cupfuls flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat the mixture until light and creamy.

2. 2

   Add the well beaten eggs, sift the dry ingredients together and add them alternately with the milk.

3. 3

   Bake in buttered muffin tins 25 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Muffins When mixing and kneading bread dough, pinch off a few bis- cuits and let rise 30 minutes. Then roll to about % inch in thickness and bake these biscuits on a hot, slightly greased grid- dle, browning on both sides. When the toasted muffin is desired, split open these biscuits, brown and butter generously. Bread Strips Cut the bread dough in strips, let rise and fry in deep fat. Serve with maple or some other syrup. YEAST BREADS 23 Raised Doughnuts 2 cupfuls bread dough % teaspoonful nutmeg 1 cupful sugar 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful melted butter flour When the dough for the bread rises the last time in the pan and is kneaded on the board to be shaped into loaves, put 2 cup- fuls of it in a mixing bowl and add the other ingredients, using the flour necessary to enable one to roll the dough % inch thick. Cut into rings or strips and leave on a floured board to rise. When light, fry in hot fat, browning on both sides. Dip in sugar when taken from the kettle. Bread Sponge Cake Mix together 2 cupfuls of bread sponge, % cupful butter, 1^2 cupTuls sugar, 1 cupful flour, 3 egg yolks, 1 teaspoonful ginger, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cocoa, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in % cupful of warm water, 1 cupful of chopped and floured raisins, 14 teaspoonful of salt and 3 stifily beaten egg whites. Pour mixture into a floured pan and bake at once in a moderate oven. Cover with a caramel or other icing when the cake is cool. Mincemeat Rolls Eoll out bread dough, spread with butter and a layer of mince- meat. Eoll up like a jelly roll and cut off I/2 inch pieces. Place these cut side up in an oiled pan, let rise until very light and bake in a moderate oven. CHAPTER 4 QUICK BREADS Muffins % cupful butter 6 teaspoonfuls baking powder % cupful sugar 2 eggs y2 teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls milk 4 cupfuls flour

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