1/2 teaspoonful of salt.
1 teaspoonful of sugar.
1/2 tablespoonful of butter.
1/2 tablespoonful of lard.
Mix all the dry ingredients and rub them through a sieve and into a bowl. Add the milk, and then the butter and lard, melted. Beat quickly, and put into heated and buttered iron gem-pans. Bake for fifteen minutes in a quick oven. If more convenient, two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder may be substituted for the soda and cream of tartar.
With these ingredients a dozen muffins can be made.
Blueberry Muffins.
Make these the same as cream of tartar muffins, using, however, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and lightly stirring into the batter half a pint of blueberries.
Yellow Corn Meal Muffins.
1/2 pint of yellow corn meal.