Wheat Muffins

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of sweet milk
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• A lump of lard or butter the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour and baking powder together.

2. 2

   This makes twelve muffins.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

14 cup of sugar. 1 egg, 1 cup of huckleberries. 1% cups of flour. 1 cup of milk. 3 teaspoons of baking powder. 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg well beaten, then the berries. Next add the milk and lastly the flour, baking powder and salt sifted together. Bake in greased muffin pans about twenty minutes. Pan Cakes (Mrs. F. 0. Taylor.) 1 quart of sour milk. 2 tablespoons of butter. 1 teaspoon of vinegar. 146 2 teaspoons of soda. 1 teaspoon of salt. Flour enough to make a thin batter. Beat well and let the mixture stand several hours. Bake on a hot gridle. Potato Biscuit (Mrs. J. Q. A. Butherford.) 1 pint of mashed potato. 1 cup of white sugar. 3 eggs (well beaten). 1 tablespoon of salt (large). '% cake of yeast. 1% cups of warm water. 1 quart of flour. 1 cup of lard (melted) or butter and lard mixed. 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Add the sugar and salt to the hot mashed po- tatoes. When cool, add the eggs, the yeast dis- solved in the water, and the flour. Let it stand over night. In the morning add the lard and the baking powder sifted in a little flour, and enough flour to make as stiff as rolls. Let the dough stand until light. Roll about an inch thick and cut with a small cutter. When light bake in a hot oven. Potato Doughnuts (Mrs. S. F. Barber.) 3 cups of mashed potatoes. 3 eggs. 3 cups of sugar. 147 FOR WRITTEN RECIPES 1% cups of milk. 6 teaspoons of baking powder. 1 nutmeg. Butter size of small egg. Pinch of salt. While the potatoes are warm add sugar, butter and milk. Mix very stiff and roll quite thin, as they swell a great deal. This makes a large quantity. Fry in deep fat. Wheat Muffins (Mrs. W. FranTclin Butherford.) 2 eggs. ^ cup of sugar. 1 cup of sweet milk. 2 cups of flour. % 2 teaspoons of baking powder. A pinch of salt. A lump of lard or butter the size of an egg

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