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put in with a little salt, and flour enough to make it
rather stiffer than poundcake; beat it well; put in a tea-
cup of yeast and let it rise, butter a fluted pan and pour
it in; bake it in a quick oven an hour and a half, slice
and butter it; or you can bake it as a loaf of bread. If
you wish tea at six o'clock, set it to rise at ten in the
morning. Bake it an hour.

Mansfield Muffins.

Take a quart of milk, three eggs, quarter of a pound
of butter or lard, a tea-cup of yeast, and flour to make a
soft dough; beat the whites of the eggs alone, the yelks
with the milk; melt the butter and stir in after all is
mixed; bake them in rings, or in round cakes on the
griddle: split and butter before eating.

Muffins.

Warm a pint of milk