This section is from the book "Common Sense In The Household. A Manual Of Practical Housewifery", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Common Sense in the Household.
1 pint raised dough.
3 eggs.
3 tablespoonfuls butter. 1/2 cup white sugar.
When your bread has passed its second rising, work into the above-named quantity the melted butter, then the eggs and sugar, beaten together until very light. Bake in muffin-rings about twenty minutes.
3 cups warm milk.
1/2 cup yeast.
2 tablespoonfuls melted butter.
1 saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water. Flour to make good batter.
Set these ingredients - leaving out the butter and soda
- as a sponge. When very light, beat in the melted but-ter, with a very little flour, to prevent the butter from thinning the batter too much; stir in the soda hard, fill pattypans or muffin-rings with the mixture, and let them stand fifteen minutes before baking.
This is an excellent, easy, and economical receipt.
3 cups Graham flour. 1 " white flour.
1 quart of milk.
3/4 cup yeast.
1 tablespoonful lard or butter.
1 teaspoonful salt.
2 tablespoonfuls sugar.
Set to rise over night, and bake in muffin-rings twenty minutes in a quick oven. Eat hot.
1 quart of milk. 3/4 cup of yeast.
2 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
1 teaspoonful salt.
Flour to make a good batter.
4 eggs.
Set the batter - leaving out the eggs - to rise over night. In the morning beat the eggs very light, stir into the batter, and bake in muffin-rings twenty minutes in a quick oven.
1 quart sweet milk (half-cream, if you can get it). 1 " flour - heaping.
6 eggs.
1 tablespoonful butter, and the same of lard - melted together.
Beat the eggs light - the yolks and whites separately; add the milk, with a little salt, then the shortening, lastly the flour, stirrring in lightly. Bake immediately in well-greased rings half-filled with the batter. Your oven should be hot, and the muffins sent to table so soon as they are taken up.
1 quart buttermilk, or " loppered " sweet milk.
2 eggs.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
Flour to make good batter.
Beat the eggs well and stir them into the milk, beating hard all the while; add the flour and salt, and at the last the soda. Bake at once in a quick oven.
1 pint milk.
1 egg.
1 tablespoonful lard.
1/2 cup yeast.
Flour for stiff batter.
1 teaspoonful salt.
Set to rise over night.
1 quart of flour.
- 3 eggs - the whites and yolks beaten separately and until stiff.
3 cups of milk. If sour, no disadvantage, if soda be added. A little salt.
The excellence of these depends upon thorough beating and quick baking.
 
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