The bakery name for them. Abo known as corn gems and muffins. They are in demand like cream rolls and graham with coffee or milk.

8 ounces white corn meal - 1 1/2 cups.

2 ounces butter or lard - large egg size.

1/2 pint boiling water - 1 cup.

1 1/2 cups cold milk.

4 ounces flour - 1 cup.

1 tablespoon sugar.

2 eggs. Salt.

1 teaspoon baking powder.

Sift the meal into a pan, place the butter or lard in the middle and pour in the boiling water and mix up Throw in the salt and sugar. Add cold milk and flour, then the eggs and powder and beat up with the egg whisk. The mixture is thin like batter cakes. Make deep gem pans hot without greasing them, so that they hiss when the batter is poured in then there will not be any black marks on the rolls. Bake about 15 or 20 minutes.

Cost of material - 12 cents for 24 to 36 according to size - sell same as wheat rolls, 3 for 5c with 1/2 oz butter.