American Muffins with Eggs
1 quart milk
³⁄₄ cup yeast
2 table-spoons powdered sugar
1 table-spoon butter
1 tea-spoon salt
4 eggs
Flour
Mix all the ingredients, except the eggs, with sufficient flour to make a good batter, overnight. Cover and set to rise. In the morning beat the eggs till very light. Stir them in. Bake for twenty minutes in a quick oven in well greased muffin rings.
*American Muffins without Yeast
¹⁄₂ pint milk
¹⁄₂ pint cream
1 heaping pint of flour
3 eggs
1 table-spoon of melted lard and butter mixed
Beat the yolks and whites separately. Stir them together. Add the milk, salt, butter and flour. Bake at once in well-greased muffin tins in a quick oven. The tins should only be filled half full of the mixture. Serve hot.
Balloon Cakes
2 table-spoons yeast
4 table-spoons cream
6 table-spoons flour
Mix the yeast with the cream. Sift the flour. Work the yeast and cream into it. Set in a warm place to rise. When risen roll out very thin. Cut into round cakes. Bake for four minutes.