Muffins, No. 1

Ingredients

• One quart of flour
• two cupfuls of milk
• half a cupful of sugar
• two eggs
• two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• one of soda
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• butter the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix the dry ingredients with the flour and rub through a sieve.

2. 2

   Melt the butter with four tablespoonfuls of boiling water.

3. 3

   Beat the eggs light, and add the milk.

4. 4

   Stir into the flour, and add the butter.

5. 5

   Beat thoroughly.

6. 6

   Bake in buttered muffin pans from twenty-five to thirty minutes, in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 179. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Muffins, No. 1. One quart of flour, two cupfuls of milk, half a cupful of sugar, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one of soda, half a teaspoonful of salt, butter the size of an egg

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