This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 cups bread flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
Cream the butter; add sugar and egg well beaten; sift baking powder with floor, and add to the first mixture, alternating with milk. Bake in buttered tin gem pans twenty-five minutes.
3 1/2 cups flour
6 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups milk
3 tablespoons melted butter l egg
3 tablespoons sugar
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add gradually milk, egg well beaten, and melted butter. Bake in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes. If iron pans are used they must be previously heated. This recipe makes thirty muffins. Use half the proportions given and a small egg, if half the number is required.
2 cups fiour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 egg
Mix and bake as One Egg Muffin I.
2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoon butter 1 cup milk (scant) 1 cup berries
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix and sift dry ingredients; work in butter with tips of fingers; add milk and berries.
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar l egg
2 2/3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 cup berries
Cream the butter; add gradually sugar and egg well beaten; mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt, reserving one-fourth cup flour to be mixed with berries and added last; the remainder alternately with milk.
1/4 cup butter 1/3 cup sugar l egg
1/2 cup milk (scant)
1 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Mix and bake same as Twin Mountain Muffins.
2 1/4 cups flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup milk l egg
2 tablespoons melted butter 1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix and sift flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder; add one-half milk, egg well beaten, the remainder of the milk mixed with rice, and beat thoroughly; then add butter. Bake in buttered muffin rings placed in buttered pan or buttered gem pans.
1 cup cooked oatmeal 1 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk l egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
Mix and bake as Rice Muffins.
1 1/4 cups Graham flour
1 cup flour
1 cup sour milk
1/3 cup molasses 3/4 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted butter
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk to molasses, and combine mixtures; then add butter.
1 cut) Graham or entire wheat flour 3/4 cup flour 1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk l egg
3 tablespoons melted butter
5 teaspoons baking powder
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk gradually, egg well beaten, and melted butter; bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes.
Make as Graham Muffins II, substituting rye meal for Graham flour.
1 1/4 cups rye meal
1 1/4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup molasses 1 1/4 cups milk l egg
1 tablespoon melted butter
Mix and bake as Graham Muffins II, adding molasses with milk.
1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk
2 cups corn meal
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
5 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup currants
Cream the butter; add sugar, gradually, eggs well beaten, and milk; then add dry ingredients mixed and sifted, and currants. Bake in buttered individual tins.
1/2 cup corn meal 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup cooked rice 2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup scalded milk (scant)
1 tablespoon melted butter
3 teaspoons baking powder
Turn scalded milk on meal, let stand five minutes; add rice, and flour mixed and sifted with remaining dry ingredients. Add yolk of egg well beaten, butter, and white of egg beaten stiff and dry.
 
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