Crumb Muffins
2 cups stale bread crumbs
1-1/4 cups milk
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon shortening
Soak bread crumbs in cold milk 10 minutes; add flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; add well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Heat muffin tins, grease and drop one tablespoon of batter into each. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in hot oven.
Rice Muffins
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 egg
1 tablespoon shortening
1 cup cold boiled rice
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk slowly; then well-beaten egg and melted shortening; add rice and mix well. Grease muffin tins; drop one spoonful of mixture into each. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in hot oven.
Date Muffins
1/3 cup butter
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1/2 pound dates
Cream butter, add beaten egg, flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted, and milk. Stir in dates which have been pitted and cut into small pieces. Bake about 25 minutes in greased gem pans in hot oven.
For sweet muffins sift 1/4 cup sugar with dry ingredients.