The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

turn them over gently with cake-turner; bake nice brown on either side. They should bake in 7 or 8 minutes. =French Muffins.=—1½ pints flour, 1 cup honey, ½ teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons butter, 3 eggs, and little over ½ pint milk or thin cream. Sift together flour, salt, and powder; rub in butter, cold; add beaten eggs, milk or thin cream, and honey. Mix smoothly into batter as for pound cake; about ½ fill sponge-cake tins, cold and fully greased, and bake in good steady oven 7 or 8 minutes. =Rice Muffins.=—2 cups cold boiled rice, 1 pint flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ½ pint milk, 3 eggs. Dilute rice, made free from lumps, with milk and beaten eggs; sift together flour, sugar, salt, and powder; add to rice preparation, mix into smooth, rather firm batter; muffin-pans (fig. VII) to be cold and well greased, then fill ⅔; bake in hot oven 15 minutes. =Hominy Muffins.=—Same as rice muffins, substituting 1 cup boiled hominy for the rice. =Royal Sally-Lunn Muffins.=—1 quart flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter or lard, 1 egg, 1¼ pints milk. Sift together flour, sugar, salt, and powder; rub in shortening; add egg, beaten, and milk; mix into rather firm batter; muffin-pans to be cold and well greased, then fill ⅔. Bake in hot oven 15 minutes. =Rye Muffins.=—1 pint rye flour, ½ pint corn meal, ½ pint flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 eggs, 1 pint milk. Sift together rye flour, corn meal, flour, sugar, salt, and powder; rub in butter; add beaten eggs, and milk; mix into smooth, rather firm batter; muffin-pans to be cold and well greased, then fill ⅔. Bake in hot oven 15 minutes. =Royal Corn Muffins.=—1 pint Indian corn meal, 1 pint flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter or lard, 2 eggs, 1 pint milk. Sift together corn meal, flour, sugar,