2 cup cornmeal,sifted*
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 tbsp lard or vegetable shortening
1 1/2 tbsp butter
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400'F.
2. Grease 2 6-cup muffin tins with vegetable shortening or lard.
Place in oven to heat.
3. Sift cornmeal, soda, and salt into a mixing bowl.
4. Beat egg with buttermilk. Heat shortening with butter until
melted; add to egg and buttermilk and blend. Add to dry ingredients
all at once and stir just enough to give the mixture a rough
appearance. Add additional buttermilk if mixture seems too dry.
5. Pour into hot muffin pans and bake about 20 minutes, or until
lightly browned. Serve hot with plentyof soft butter and any homemade
jelly or jam.
Servings: 12 servings
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The History of Recipes
We are able to read the history of written recipes way back into ancient history, in truth as far as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, generally, these ancient records were just simple pictorial recipes for preparing food.
As we move on, we have two interesting cookery books published in the 14th Century : one book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are nothing to do with the indian food that appears on menues today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals prepared by the cooks of the rich people of that time. Later, in the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from the East, such as parsley, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new culinary ideas was responsible for an outbreak in recipe manuscripts, some of which are now in academic collections. The revolution that is television brought us celebrity chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which brings us neatly to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, permitting everyone to access massive numbers of recipes such as those found on our site. |
We hope you enjoy this Annie Mae Jones' Cornmeal Muffins recipe.
