Blueberry Muffins

1 cup fresh blueberries.

2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg.

3/4 cup milk 2 cups sifted flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda.

80 minims hydrochloric acid (C. P).

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Sift the soda, flour and salt together. Cream the butter and sugar and add the beaten egg. Then add the hydrochloric acid, and mix well. Add the milk and the dry ingredients alternately. At the last fold in the blueberries.

If baking powder is used sift with the dry ingredients and omit the soda and the hydrochloric acid.

Date Muffins

1/4 cup butter 1/4 Cup sugar 1 egg.

3/4 cup milk.

2 cups white flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound dates 1 teaspoon soda.

80 minims hydrochloric acid (CP).

(This amount of soda and hydrochloric acid is equivalent to 4 teaspoons of baking powder).

Prepare the dates by immersing in cold water. Remove the seeds and then wash in hot water. Cut or chop into small pieces. Cur-rants or raisins may be used if preferred. Sift the soda and flour together. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the beaten egg and the hydrochloric acid. Add the milk and the flour alternately and lastly fold in the chopped dates. Bake in buttered muffin tins twenty to twenty-five minutes in a hot oven.

If baking powder is used, sift with the dry ingredients and omit the soda and hydrochloric acid.

Rice Muffins

2 1/4 cups flour.

3/4 cup hot cooked rice.

2 tablespoons melted butter.

2 tablespoons sugar.

1 cup milk 1 egg.

1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 teaspoon soda.

100 minims hydrochloric acid (C. P).

(This amount of hydrochloric acid and soda is equivalent to 5 teaspoons of baking powder).

Mix and sift the flour, sugar and salt together. Divide the dry ingredients and sift the soda with one-half of them. Beat the egg, add the milk and the half of the dry ingredients which do not contain the soda. Add the hydrochloric acid. Mix thoroughly and stir in the remainder of the dry ingredients. Add the butter and fold in the rice. (It will take a scant 1/4 cup of raw rice to make 3/4 cup of boiled rice.) Turn into buttered gem pans and bake in a quick oven twenty to thirty minutes.

If baking powder is used omit the soda and hydrochloric acid and sift all of the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg, add the milk and stir in the dry ingredients and proceed as above directed.