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.
2 cups oat flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons molasses or corn syrup
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add gradually milk, egg well beaten, molasses or corn syrup, and melted shortening. Bake in greased gem pans twenty-five minutes. If iron pans are used they must be previously heated.
Bake Oat Flour Muffin mixture in greased bread pan instead of muffin pans. Slice when cold.
2 cups rolled oats
1 tablespoon sugar or syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/8 cups milk
1 tablespoon melted shortening
5 teaspoons baking powder
Grind rolled oats in food chopper. To one-half the oats add sugar, salt, milk, and shortening. Beat with egg beater until mixture is full of bubbles; then add remaining oats and baking powder. Let stand three or four minutes in greased muffin pans and bake in hot oven twenty minutes.
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon fat
2 tablespoons syrup 2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 cup buckwheat flour 1 cup ground rolled oats
Add to milk melted fat, syrup, and eggs slightly beaten. Sift salt, baking powder, and flour, using a coarse sieve so that no part of the flour is wasted. Combine mixtures, stirring lightly, without beating. Bake in greased muffin pans twenty to thirty minutes in a hot oven.
1 cup sifted barley flour 1/2 cup rice flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon melted shortening
Mix and sift dry ingredients; then add egg, well beaten, milk, and shortening. Beat thoroughly, bake in hot, well-oiled muffin pans about twenty-five minutes, or mixture may be steamed like Boston Brown Bread and sliced when cold.
1 cup barley flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup molasses
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup bran
1 egg
1 1/4 cups milk
2 tablespoons melted shortening
Mix and sift twice barley flour, salt, and baking powder; then add bran, molasses, egg well beaten and mixed with the milk, and shortening. Beat thoroughly. Bake in hot, well-greased iron muffin pans about twenty-five minutes.
1 1/2 cups sifted barley flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons corn syrup 1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup hot or cold cooked cereal 3/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted shortening
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Break cereal into pieces and mix with milk until of a smooth consistency. Mix egg well beaten and corn syrup and stir into the dry ingredients, then add shortening. Bake in hot, well-greased muffin pans about twenty minutes.
 
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