Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

The excellence of these depends upon thorough beating and quick baking.

Rice Muffins. ✠

• 1 cup cold boiled rice.
• 1 pint of flour.
• 2 eggs.
• 1 quart of milk, or enough to make thin batter.
• 1 tablespoonful lard or butter.
• 1 teaspoonful salt.

Beat hard and bake quickly.

Hominy Muffins. ✠

• 2 cups fine hominy—boiled and cold.
• 3 eggs.
• 3 cups sour milk. If sweet, add one teaspoonful cream tartar.
• ½ cup melted butter.
• 2 teaspoonfuls salt.
• 2 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
• 1 large cup flour.
• 1 teaspoonful soda.

Beat the hominy smooth; stir in the milk, then the butter, salt, and sugar; next the eggs, which should first be well beaten; then the soda, dissolved in hot water; lastly the flour.

There are no more delicious or wholesome muffins than these, if rightly mixed and quickly baked.

Belle’s Muffins.

• 3 pints of flour.
• 1 quart of milk.
• 2 eggs.
• 2 tablespoonfuls cream tartar.
• 1 tablespoonful soda.
• 1 tablespoonful salt.