This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Sift together one cup, each, of meal and flour, or two of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, four or five level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and from two tablespoonfuls to half a cup of sugar. Beat an egg until light without separating, add one cup and a fourth of milk, and stir at once into the dry ingredients. Add also from one tablespoonful to one fourth cup of melted butter; beat thoroughly and bake about twenty-five minutes in a hot, well-buttered muffin or gem pan.
1 cup of white flour. 3 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. 1 cup of entire wheat flour. 1 egg. 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. 1 1/4 cups of milk. 1/2 teaspoonful of salt. 3 tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
1/4 cup of butter. 2 cups of flour. 3/4 cup of sugar. 1 cup of cornmeal. 2 eggs. 4 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. 1 cup of milk. I teaspoonful of salt.
Cream the butter, add the sugar, the eggs beaten without separating and, alternately, the milk and the rest of the dry ingredients sifted together. Bake in a hot, buttered muffin pan about twenty-five minutes.
1 cup of milk. 2 eggs. 1 tablespoonful of butter. 1/4 cup of sugar. 1/4 teaspoonful of salt. 1/4 cup of flour. 1/3 cup of cornmeal (scant). 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
Scald the milk, add the butter and salt and stir in the cornmeal (granulated, yellow meal preferred), stir and let thicken a few moments, then cool; add the eggs, beaten without separating, and the sugar, flour and baking-powder sifted together. Turn into a hot, buttered muffin pan and bake fifteen or twenty minutes in a hot oven. The recipe makes one dozen delicious cakes.

1/3 cup of butter. 1 egg. 1/4 cup of sugar. 3/4 cup of milk. 1/4 teaspoonful of salt. 2 cups of flour. 4 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, then alternately the egg beaten and mixed with the milk and the flour sifted with the baking-powder. Bake in hot roll pan about twenty-five minutes.
To the mixture for Twin Mountain muffins add at least one cup of blueberries.
To the butter and sugar creamed together for Twin Mountain muffins, add one fourth pound of dates, chopped fine.
1/3 cup of butter. 1 cup of milk. 1/2 cup of sugar. 3 cups of flour. 1 egg and yolk of another. 4 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
Mix in the same manner as Twin Mountain muffins.

 
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