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BISCUITS, BREAKFAST CAKES, ETC.
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Berkshire Muffins

1/2 cup corn meal 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flour 2/3 cup scalded milk (scant)
1/2 cup cooked rice 1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon melted butter
3 teaspoons baking powder

Turn scalded milk on meal, let stand five minutes; add rice, and flour mixed and sifted with remaining dry ingredients. Add yolk of egg well beaten, butter, and white of egg beaten stiff and dry.

Golden Corn Cake

1 cup corn meal 3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour 1 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar 1 egg
5 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons melted butter

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk, egg well beaten, and butter; bake in shallow buttered pan in hot oven twenty minutes.

Corn Cake (sweetened with Molasses)

1 cup corn meal 1/4 cup molasses
3/4 cup flour 3/4 cup milk
31/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg
1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted butter

Mix and bake as Golden Corn Cake, adding molasses to milk.

White Corn Cake

1/4 cup butter 11/4 cups white corn meal
1/2 cup sugar 11/4 cups flour
11/3 cups milk 4 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 3 eggs 1 teaspoon salt

Cream the butter; add sugar gradually; add milk, alternating with dry ingredients, mixed and sifted. Beat thoroughly; add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake in buttered cake pan thirty minutes.