Ingredients
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp granuleated sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup yellow cornmeal
2 each large eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions
Grease 12 2 1/2-inch muffin cups. Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Sift
flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into medium-sized bowl. Add
cornmeal and stir to mix well. In small bowl, beat eggs with fork.
Add milk and oil. Add all at once to dry ingredients. Stir mixture
only until dry ingredients are mositened. Batter will be lumpy. Drop
batter from a tablespoon into the prepared muffin cups, filling each
cup 1/2 to 2/3rds full. Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
Remove and serve hot with butter, bacon and eggs.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Bread; Breads; Muffin
The History of Recipes
Academics have traced the existance of recipes back into ancient history, certainly as far back into recorded history as ancient Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Having said that, in the main part, these old cookbooks were just simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts is a collection of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we have a couple of cookery books which appeared in the fourteenth century : a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these have no connection with the indian food that is familiar to us all today, but rather recipes for the types of meals prepared by the cooks of the wealthy. During the succeeding few hundred years, the upper-class families of Europe competed to lay on the most exotic meals, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their collection of recipes became highly prized. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the 1800s that haute cuisine and recipe books became really popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes to allow everyone to enjoy them. By the arrival of the 20th century, cooking publications were highly popular mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having increased free time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Corn Meal Muffins recipe.
