Corn Muffins
One and one-half pounds sugar, ½ pound lard or butter, 9 eggs, 1 quart milk, ⅔ ounce soda, 1 pound corn meal, 2 pounds flour, 1⅓ ounces of cream of tartar, flavor lemon.
Take sugar and lard, rub to a cream, add the eggs, rub good. Now take the milk, dissolve the soda in the milk and mix. Take your sieve, put over the bowl, put the corn meal, cream of tartar and flour together, sieve through. Mix and bake in heat of 550 degrees F. Bake in cup cake pans, greased light. No icing. These cakes sell for one cent each, or six for five cents.