Corn-Meal Crumpets.
1 quart Indian meal.
1 quart boiled milk.
4 tablespoonfuls yeast.
2 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
2 heaping tablespoonfuls lard, or butter, or half-and-half.
1 saltspoonful salt.
Scald the meal with the boiling milk, and let it stand until lukewarm. Then stir in the sugar, yeast, and salt, and leave it to rise five hours. Add the melted shortening, beat well, put in greased muffin-rings, set these near the fire for fifteen minutes, and bake. Half an hour in a quick oven ought to cook them.
Never cut open a muffin or crumpet of any kind, least of all one made of Indian meal. Pass the knife lightly around it to pierce the crust, then break open with the fingers.