Jane Little's Cookbook


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Quick
Breads


  • Bran Muffins
  • Griddlecakes (a/k/a pancakes)
  • Waffles
Bran Muffins
  • 2 tablespoons butter
    3 tablespoons sugar
    1 egg
    3/4 cup milk
    1 cup all-bran (or bran flalks)
    1 cup sifted flour
    2 tsp baking powder
    1/2 tsp salt.
Cream shortening and sugar; add egg and beat well. Stir in milk, then all-bran. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir dry ingredients into bran mixture just till moistened. Fill greased muffin pans 2/3 full. Bake at 435 deg. about 20 min. Makes 1 doz.

Griddlecakes
  • 2 cups flour
    4 tsp. baking powder
    4 tblsp. sugar i
    1 tsp. salt
    1 1/2 cups milk
    4 tblsp. melted butter
    2 eggs, beaten light.
Sift flour with baking powder, sugar and salt. Add milk and butter to egg. Add flour mixture all at once and stir just enough to dampen flour. Add more milk if necessary to make batter just thin enough to pour. Pour in hot frying pan and fip to brown each side.

Waffles

Buttermilk Waffles
Beat well
  • 2 eggs
Beat in
  • 2 cups buttermilk
    2 cups flour
    3 tsp. baking powder
    1/2 tsp. salt
    6 tbsp. butter
Beat until smooth. Bake in hot waffle iron.

Sweet Milk Waffles

Follow above recipe - except omit soda and use 4 tsp. baking powder; substitute sweet milk for buttermilk; and separate eggs. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in last.