PLAIN MUFFINS
Four cups flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, two teaspoonfuls salt, four tablespoonfuls butter, two cups milk. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder into a bowl; add butter, and knead with the back of a fork until it becomes mealy. Add milk and stir until it becomes a batter. Bake in greased pans in a hot oven twenty-five minutes.
Adele J. Strauss
SIMPLE HOT CAKES
One cup of flour, one egg beaten very light, milk enough to make the flour light, one-half teaspoonful salt, one and one-half teaspoon baking powder, one tablespoon sugar.
Mrs. Preston
CAKES
It is recommended that Royal baking powder be used where any is required.
FRUIT CAKE
Brown one pound flour; cream together one pound of sugar and one of butter, then add eight beaten eggs and one cup of molasses, one-half cup whiskey, one cup sour cream, a tablespoon each of mace, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and grated nutmeg. Stir in one pound of browned flour and one-half teaspoon of soda dissolved; gradually add one pound of seeded raisins, one pound of washed and dried currants, one pound citron cut in small pieces, all fruit being lightly dredged with flour. Bake in well-buttered paper laid in deep pans. This cake should be baked in large loaves. Be careful your oven is not too hot. Bake three to four hours.