This section is from the book "A Treatise On Flour, Yeast, Fermentation And Baking Together With RecipesFor Bread And Cakes", by Julius Emil Wihlfahrt. Also available from Amazon: A treatise on flour, yeast, fermentation and baking, together with recipes for bread and cakes.
Ingredients used:
2 quarts milk. 2 1/4 lbs. flour.
12 eggs.
1 oz. salt.
2 oz. Fleischmann's Yeast.
Set sponge with milk, flour and yeast, which should be luke-warm. Allow to rest for 45 minutes; then add the eggs and salt, and beat the whole for 10 minutes. Fill into greased muffin rings, filling the latter 1/2 full, and bake in hot oven.
Ingredients used:
8 boiled potatoes of medium size, mashed very fine.
4 oz. melted butter.
1 pint milk.
2 oz. Fleischmann's Yeast.
2 oz. sugar.
Flour to make soft batter.
2 eggs.
Stir all the above ingredients together, except the butter and eggs, and let rise until it breaks. Then add the butter previously melted and the eggs. Beat well, add a little more flour, and bake in muffin rings.
After filling in rings, which latter should be filled half full, allow to rest for 30 minutes before baking.
 
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