Recipe of the Month
This muffin recipe was taken from a cook book copyrighted in 1896, by Fannie Merritt Farmer ( It is quoted exactly ). This is a good Basic Muffin recipe. You can add raisins or nuts or vary it however you wish. Happy Baking
Queen of Muffins
1/4 Cup Butter 1/2 Cup milk (scant)
1/3 Cup Sugar 1 & 1/2 Cups flour
1 egg 2 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Cream the butter; add sugar and egg well beaten; sift baking powder
with flour, and add to the first mixture, alternating with milk.
Bake in a buttered tin gem pans Bake 25 minutes at 400 degrees
This recipe is from the White House Cookbook 1938. Most of the instructions do not have oven degrees and sometimes the pans, and directions are vague. But needless to say are quite interesting.
1/2 Cup Dark Molasses
In a large mixing bowl, mix oil molasses and applesauce. In another Bowl, sift together Flour, Soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Stir together wet and dry ingredients and raisins. Drop into muffin cups and bake 18 to 20 minutes.
