Imperial Muffins

1/2 cupful scalded milk
1/4 cupful sugar
1/4 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful salt
1/3 yeast cake
3/4 cupful lukewarm water
1-3/4 cupfuls flour
1 cupful cornmeal

Add sugar and salt to milk; when lukewarm add yeast cake dissolved in 1/4 cupful of the water, and 1-1/4 cupfuls flour, cover, and let rise until light, then add Crisco, cornmeal, remaining flour and water. Let rise over night, in morning fill Criscoed muffin rings, two-thirds full; let rise until rings are full and bake thirty minutes in hot oven.

Sufficient for twelve muffins.