2 C-flour
4 t-baking powder
¼ t-salt
1 egg
1 C-milk
1 T-melted butter
¼ C-sugar
Mix and sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Beat the egg, add the milk; add these liquid ingredients to the dry ones. Beat two minutes. Add the melted butter. Fill well buttered muffin pans one-half full. Bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes.
CHAPTER XVII
BOB GETS BREAKFAST ON SUNDAY
"NOW, Bettina, you sit here and direct me, but don't you dare to move. I'm going to get breakfast myself."
"Fine for you, chef! Have it on the porch, will you? It's the most beautiful morning of the year, I do believe! But you must give me something to do. Let me set the table, will you?"
"Well, you can do that, but get me an apron first. Be sure you get one that'll be becoming!"
Bettina went to a deep drawer in the pantry, of which the breakfast alcove was a part, and selected a white bungalow apron with red dots.