3 cups milk.

1 table-spoonful melted butter.

2 eggs - beaten stiff.

3 table-spoonfuls good yeast. 1 table-spoonful white sugar.

1 teaspoonful salt, and 1/4 teaspoonful soda. Flour to make a pretty stiff batter.

Make all the ingredients except the eggs, into a sponge, and set to rise over night. Half an hour before breakfast, add the eggs and the soda (dissolved in hot water); beat all together hard; put into muffin-rings ; let them stand on the hearth ten minutes, and bake about twenty in a brisk oven.