Corn Bread or Muffins - American Recipe

Corn Bread or Muffins

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Mixing-bowl, Dover beater, Tablespoon, Sifter, Small saucepan, Muffin-pan or cake-pan

Homemade corn bread or muffins — a 1920s kitchen staple.

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• ¾ cup corn-meal
• ¾ cup flour
• 3 teaspoons baking-powder
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter

Method

1. Beat — the egg in a mixing-bowl.
2. Add — the milk, and stir.
3. Measure — the flour, salt, baking-powder, and sugar into the sifter, and sift it into the milk and egg, stirring well together.
4. Melt — the butter in a small saucepan, add it to the batter, and beat thoroughly.
5. Butter — the muffin-pans or cake-pan. Pour the batter into the cake-pan, or fill the muffin-pans two-thirds full of the batter.
6. Bake — in a moderate oven about twenty minutes, or until browned on top.

Tags: corn, milk, butter, egg, flour, sugar, bread · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Sour milk may be used instead of sweet milk. In this case use only 1 teaspoon of baking-powder, and stir ½ teaspoon of soda into the sour milk. Melted bacon grease or similar fat may be used instead of butter.