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1899

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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Wheat Muffins No. i. — One and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milkBaking Powder Biscuit No. 1, one ^^'g, one tablespoonful of melted butter, a pinch of salt. Put the flour, yolk of ^gg, butter, salt, and half the milk together in the mix- ing bowl, and beat until very light, then gradually add the balance of the milk, continuing the beating, and lastly beat the white of the ^%% stiff, and fold carefully into the mixture. Bake half an hour in a hot oven. Wheat Muffins No. 2. — Two cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, two tablespoons of melted butter, two teaspoons of baking powder, a pinch of salt. Sift the baking powder and salt with the flour into the mixing bowl, add the milk, and beat well, then add the melted butter. Bake half an hour. Wheat Muffins No. 3. — One and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, two tablespoons of melted butter, two teaspoons of baking powder, two eggs, a pinch of saltWheat Muffins No. 1. Sift the baking powder, salt, and flour into the mixing bowl, add the milk and yolks of eggs, beat until very light, then add the melted butter, and lastly the whites of the eggs beaten stifl". Bake half an hour. Rice Muffins. — One and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of boiled rice, two tablespoons of melted butter, two teaspoons of baking powder, two eggsRice Muffins. Sift the baking powder, salt, and flour into the mixing bowl, add the milk and yolks of eggs, beat until very light, add the melted butter, then the boiled rice, which stir evenly through the mixture with a fork, and lastly fold in the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff". Bake half an hour. The formula for rice muffins is exactly the same as that Bread- Making . 199 for Wheat Muffins No. 3, with the addition of a cup of boiled rice ; and although the rice enlarges the quantity of batter considerably it does not materially affect its consistency. The rice, in boiling, absorbs all the mois- ture it is capable of holding, hence in mixing it in the wheat muffin batter it is not necessary to use any addi- tional wetting. "Wheat Griddle Cakes No. i. — One and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, two level teaspoons of baking powder, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one ^%%^ a pinch of saltWheat Griddle Cakes No. 1. Sift the baking powder, salt, and flour together in the mixing bowl, add the milk, butter, and yolk of Q.g%, beat until very light, then fold in the white of the ^%% beaten stiff, and bake in cakes on a hot griddle. Wheat Griddle Cakes No. 2. — One and one half cups of flour, one cup of thick, sour milk, one teaspoon of soda, a pinch of saltWheat Griddle Cakes No. 2. Sift the soda, salt, and flour together into the mixing bowl, add the sour milk, and stir with a spoon, but only until thoroughly mixed. Bake on a griddle. Wheat Griddle Cakes No. 3. — One and one half cups of flour, one cup of buttermilk, one teaspoon of soda, one ^%%, a pinch of saltWheat Griddle Cakes No. 3. Sift the soda and salt with the flour, add the buttermilk and the Qg<g slightly beaten, stir all carefully together, and bake on a griddle. French Pancakes. — One cup of milk, half a cup of flour, three eggs, one tablespoonful of olive oil or melted butter, one teaspoonful of granulated sugar, half a teaspoonful of saltFrench Pancakes. Sift the flour, sugar, and salt together, add the oil, the yolks of the eggs, and one 200 The Art of Cookery,