This section is from the book "Ye Kirke Cookerie", by First Methodist Church (Evanston, Ill.) Women's Union. Also available from Amazon: Ye Kirke Cookerie.
1/2 cup sugar.
3 tablespoons butter.
1/2 cup milk.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal Flour.
2 tablespoons corn meal.
Combine milk and well beaten egg. Add to dry ingredients that have been well sifted together. Melt butter and add to mixture last. Bake in a quick oven about thirty minutes.
Mother of Mrs. G. W. Moss.
1 cup Gold Medal flour.
2 cups graham flour.
1 egg.
1 tablespoon lard 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon soda.
Add sour milk to dry ingredients that have been well sifted together. Melt lard and add to mixture. Beat. Bake in hot oven twenty-five or thirty minutes.
Mrs. G. W. Moss.
2 1/4 cups P i 11 s b u r y.
Health Bran 2 cups of flour 3/4 cup of seedless raisins 1/2 cup sugar.
1 tablespoon shortening.
2 teaspoons salt.
1 egg.
2 cups of sour milk or buttermilk 1/2 cup boiling water 1 1/2 teaspoons soda dissolved in boiling water.
Sweet milk may be used if three tablespoons baking powder sifted with the flour are substituted for the soda. Cream shortening and sugar, add egg and beat well. Add milk to which soda and water have been added. Add flour and bran. Mix well and drop in buttered muffin pans. Bake in quick oven till light and browned.
Mrs. Peter W. Finger.
2 cups Gold Medal flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar.
1 egg.
1 cup milk 4 heaping teaspoons baking powder.
Mix all together in one bowl. Put small piece of butter in each muffin ring, put in oven until butter is melted, then half fill with batter and bake about twenty minutes in quick oven.
Mrs. J. H. Prindle.
1/2 cup scalded milk 1/2 cup water 1 yeast cake.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 cups flour.
Combine water and milk and when luke warm add yeast, salt and flour. Let rise; beat down and let mixture rise half its size.
Sift flour lightly into dripping pan, make impressions with a tin box 3 inches in diameter. Drop dough in impressions. Dust with flour and let rise until very light. Lift carefully to hot griddle slightly greased and cook slowly until brown on both sides, turning occasionally with a broad spatula. They should be 3 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick when baked. Pull apart muffins, hot or cold. Toast lightly on both sides and serve at once.
Mrs. H. A. Dittman.
1 cup sweet milk 1 tablespoonn butter.
1 tablespoon sugar.
2 eggs.
4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt Gold Medal flour to make light batter.
Beat sugar, eggs and butter to a very light sponge with an egg beater; add milk and stir. Then add flour and baking powder.
Mrs. L. A. Thornburg.
Take:
1/2 cup Wheat Bran.
1/2 cup Gold Medal.
Flour 1/2 cup milk.
1 saltspoon of salt.
1 egg.
3 tablespoons molasses.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
Sift dry ingredients, add egg and liquids. Mix thoroughly. Bake about twenty minutes .
Mrs. E. G. Drew.
2 eggs (1 will suffice).
1 cup sweet milk.
1 tablespoon melted butter Pinch of salt (added to eggs before beating).
2 tablespoons molasses 2 cups bran.
1 cup graham flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder mixed with flour Raisins to taste.
Beat together wet ingredients; add dry ingredients in order named.
Bake in moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes.
Mrs. Milton S. Terry.
1 cup sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 teaspoon baking soda dissolved in 1/2 cup of hot water 3/4 cup milk (sweet or sour).
1 egg.
2 cups bran.
2 cups Gold Medal flour 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder 1 cup raisins.
Sift baking powder with flour, then add ingredients in order given. Bake in quick oven about 30 minutes.
Mrs. Townsend Smith.
1 cup buttermilk.
1 cup bran.
1 cup Gold Medal flour.
Salt.
1 egg.
1 teaspoon shortening.
1 tablespoon sugar.
Sift dry ingredients together. Add the milk and well beaten egg and the melted shortening last. Bake in quick oven twenty-five or thirty minutes.
Mrs. E. J. McKee.
1 cup bread crumbs dried and rolled 1 cup Gold Medal flour well sifted 1 cup milk.
1 egg.
2 tablespoons Mazola.
1 tablespoon sugar.
4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Put crumbs in bowl; cover with milk and well beaten egg. Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into crumbs. Add oil and beat well. Bake in hot oven twenty five or thirty minutes.
Myrtle M. Fuchs.
 
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