Vintage Recipe Monday!

Good Monday morning everyone!  How's everyone surviving these bitterly cold days?  If it gets as cold as the weatherman says tomorrow we will be breaking a record that goes back to 1918! 

So what's good to eat that will warm you innards?  How about some Corn Meal Muffins, recipe right out of a 1920's recipe booklet from Snow King Baking Powder.  I have so many of these little recipe booklets and the other day I pulled them out and decided I was going to try some of these old recipes.  I am glad I tried this one!

 

 

 

Corn Meal Muffins

compliments of Mrs Herbert. L Richie of Concord N.C.

 

4 Tbls shortening

2 Tbls. sugar

1 egg

1 1/4 cups milk

1 cup flour

1 cup corn meal

4 tea. Snow King Baking Powder

1/2 tea. salt.

Cream shortening and sugar together until light.  Add well-beaten egg, then flour, baking powder and salt sifted together and mixed with cornmeal.  Add milk gradually.  Beat well and bake in a hot over in well greased muffin pans about 25 minutes in a moderately hot oven. 

 

At the bottom it says "This recipe won first prize for four consecutive years at Cabarrus Co. Fair!

 

 

Here is the deal with mine.  I add self rising flour only so I didn't use the baking powder or the salt.  I should have!  They didn't rise like they should have, but they were still delicious!

 

While these are baking I browsed through the booklet and I think it must have belonged to someone with a mischievous little one, because someone has colored all the cheeks red on all the ladies photos in the book!

 

These really do take 25 minutes to bake, I was worried it would be too long but they came out great!

Crispy on the outside and light and delicious on the inside.

This recipe is a keeper!

I can't really find any information about Snow King Baking powder on the internet other than they are no longer in business and tins of vintage baking powder cost about $50.00! 

 

Have a great day and stay warm!

 

Linda