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-V - ‘ -V mm?. 'The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C„ Thursday, Muffins Always in Order Properly Made, They Have* Won Position as Delicacy Entitled to a Place of Honor at Either Breakfast, Luncheon or Dinner. Mufflnfe, says a culinary authority, are officially breakfast and luncheon hot breads, but I am sure they would Snd ^welcome at any meal—tender, piping hot, fresh from the oven. How many different kinds of “gems,” as they are sometimes known, belong to the muffin family, and, how they can differ In lightness, ^tenderness .and richness! To be really up to standard a muffin must be light and it must be more or less tender, but It need not be rich. Popovers, for Instance. which are A kind or mumn, are not rich but they must be light and have a certain amount of tenderness. "Plain” muffins should be light and tender but not rich. Tea muffins should have all of these character istics. Sometimes, of course, we choose to use tea muffins for break fast, luncheon and dinner. They are the very finest member of the muffin family. This is the mixture that is often used as a foundation for fruit muffins, such as blueberry or date. To go back to popovers, those puffy bits of crust enclosing nothing, the secret of making popovers pop. is to have a thin batter and to bake them In a hot oven. The batter should be as thick as really thick cream. It is not necessary to beat this mixture even enough to get out all the lumps. The pan should be heavy and should be heated before greasing. Iron or earthenware are probably the best types of pan for re-heated in a moderate popovers. The popovers should be baked In a hot oven until puffed brown, about half an hour. The fire may then be turned out and the pop- over allowed to stay In the oven ten or fifteen minutes longer. This method guarantees they will come up to their name. , For muffins we ufce a thicker bat ter, like a thick cake mixture. The plain muffins are mixed very quickly, the dry Ingredients'sifted and mixed together, the egg and Iftiuid well mixed. I like to pour the first mix ture all at one time Into the others and then stir until smooth. Last of all, the melted fat, cooled a little after being melted. Is added. When muffins are made in this way they are rather coarse grained. If you wish a finer grain, cut the fat into the flour, or cream with the sugar. For rich muffins the latter method is used and we actually get tea cakes. Blueberries In summer, and dates or raisins In wlnte" are the fmlt.a mnat nfton used In ninglna. bag and oven. Popovers. 1 cup flour teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 «sa ; \ Mix the salt and flour, beat the egg slightly, and mix with the milk; add to the dry ingredients. Beat only enough to mix well and pour Into hot buttered gem-pans or cus tard cups. Bake In a hot oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit!—30—minutes, then turn out the fire or open the door, and keep In the oven for ten minutes. Iron or earthenware Is better than agate dr fin for biking popovers. Plain Muffins. S cups flour S teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons melted fat ^ teaspoon salt ■ - La— Mix and sift the dry Ingredients. Beat the -egg. pour the milk into It. and stir gradually inb the dry in gredients. Add the melted faLand fill the greased muffin pans three- quarters full. Bake 20 to 30 minutes In a moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit). . Date or Raisin Muffins. To the plain fnuffln recipe add one- half cup seedless raisins or three- fourths cup cut dates. The rich muffin recipe ur the brair muffins af* particularly good when fruit Is add ed. If baked In very small muffin pans these fruit muffins are well adapted for serving at afternoon tea. Sally Lunn Is a rich muffin mixture baked In one Urge pen 80 to 40 minute* in a -moderate oven (850 de- Fahrenheit). When finished baking it ahould be cut in squares and served at once like muffing. Bran Muffin*, t tablespoons shortening cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup sour milk 1 cup bran 1 cup flour ^ M teaspoon soda 14 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder v Cream shortening and sugar to gether, add the egg. Mix and sift flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. To the creamed mixture add the bran, then the milk, alternately with the sifted dry Ingredients. Pour into greased muffin tins and Jrake In a moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes* If Sweet milk Is used instead of sour milk omit the one-half teaspoon of soda and use three teaspoons baking powder. Raisins or dates may be added to the muffins If desired. Blueberry Muffins. —14 cup trotter Vt cup sugar 1 egg v 2% cups flour 414 teaspoons baking powdsr 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 cup berries today** fleet chromium bullet-shaped trains. Bury** application, dated May 15, 1855, recites bow he "Invented a new and useful machine for effectually ventilating and cooling railroad cars, omnibuses, stages, and other closed vehicles, and for ventilating and cool ing public and private buildings, in whole or In part, steamboats, steam ships and sailing vessels.” The Pennsylvania Inventor did not yet know about the airplane, or he probably would have suggested that too. Ha would keep things cool by a System of pulleys attached to the wheels of the train, which operated fans and water wheels revolving be^ hind a box packed with Ice and then dispatching the cool air along an air tube. ■ OLD BALL PARK the Christian era hi Chiapas and fjlnitnnili The pirns i In i mud somewhat In the course of ten or fifteen centuries, to Jndgs by th* courts In northern Yucatan knows tb date from a few cento America’s discovery. AH courts have an H-shaped space to play In. Very old ones of the South had several round altars In the center, and the aide walls en closing the field sloped. Northern courts lost their altars as centuries went by, their side ,walls became vertical, and big stone rings were placed In them for the ball to go through. The Monte Alban court seems to fall between these types, as Its walls still slope and are with out a stone ring, although It had already lost all but one of Its cen tral altars. It t* therefore likely that Monte Alban was occupied a thousand years ago. UN MAY AIN CIlTT Ruins May Disclose Age of Monte Alban. Cream the butter and sugar to gether and add egg well beaten; mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt and add alternately with the milk. Add berries with the rest of the flour. Pour Into greased muffin pans and bake In a hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit) 20 minutes. Corn Muffins. % cup commeal 114 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar ** 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons shortening 1 egg—— — cup chopped pecans Will America’s football stadiums and baseball diamonds become im portant aids to understanding our civilization a thousand years or so from now? asks the writer of a bul letin from Science Service. This comes to mind, he says, with the news that archeologists in Mexico have placed the age of a seemingly ageless city by taking note of its ball games. The city Is the famous Monte Al ban, today a maze of burled ruins perched on a mountain ridge. Monte Alban gained 'its widest modern fame when Mexican archeologists entered a tomb there and found group—of—prehistoric—dignitaries Mix and sift the first five Ingredi ents. Add milk, melted shortening, well beaten egg, and pecans. Bake In a moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) 25 to 30 minutes. Patent Issued Long Ago for Streamline Train This mixture Is sometimes baked in one cake and called sally lunn. — Bran muffins are great favorites at present. Molasses is often used as th* sweetening with them. They have a nntty flavor that Is much liked. Baking powder Is usually used to raise muffins. As the eggs are few the amount of baking powder Is comparatively larger; the less fat used, the more baking powder Is needed for tender muffins. Sometimes soar milk or buttermilk and soda are used as leavening. The proportion la one-half teaspoon to each cup of sour milk. As we can not be perfectly certain of the amount of acid in the milk I like to add one teaspoon of baking powder to plain muffins or one-half teaspoon to rich muffins In addition. Muffins need a moderate oven. 375 degrees Fahrenheit, and when they are of medium size they should bake about 25 minutes. Smaller muffins win bake In 15 or 20 minutes. Leftover plain muffins may he split and- toasted for another day’s meal. Bran muffins or any of |he ,tea muffins may be put In a paper No Mending at Homo Little Sadie, visiting a nelgnbor, was carefully warchlng the prepar ation of a chicken for the Sunday dinner. She quite approved of th* procedure until the/neighbor began sewing up the fowU then, shaking her head, she declared : ‘‘Goodnesh met we never have to mend our chickens like that” =F To reneve Eczema give skin —* nurses use 4 Resinol The inventions of two Civil war time acientists who were born at least a half century too early—and thus lost millions of dollars of po tential earnings—have been discov ered. What had they achieved?. Well, one of them—S. R. Calthorp of Roxhury, Mass.—obtained a pat ent 03 a streamline railroad some seventy years ago, the same type of bullet-shaped car that is today’s l*f-’ est transportation development. Jack Diamond tells us, In the Chicago Daily News. And the other Inventor, J. R. Barry of Philadelphia, tfcn years before that —In 1855—was granted a patent on an air-conditioning and cooling sys tem for passenger cars. The first air-conditioned train was actually In troduced by .the Baltimore A Ohio almost three-quarters of a century later. Id 1929. Explanation for the long Interval between issuance of the patents and actual materialization was given by the man who called attention to the ancient patents. * "Barry and Calthrop were certain ly pioneer inventors and, like many pioneers, were far ahead of their time," stated Charles L. Howard, as slstant general counsel for the West ern Railroad association. "They planted the seeds for air- conditioning and streamlining of trains, but it took the opportune mo ment and skilled engineers to culti vate the seeds to a successful growth as they are today. “For many year* following the days of Barry and Cfalthorp comfort and speed of travel were not the im portant things. "Jt was only necessary that we be moved from place to place with out-the loss of limb or life. "Today It Is different. We demand In addition to safety the utmost com tort and a mlle-or-two-a-mlnute pace, and we are getting It In every burled In shining golden regalia. But to the archeologists, whose first question about a place la "How old la It?” Monte. Alban remained a mystery. Tbs treasure tomb dis covery added to tbe enigma, for It was "foreign” cache belonging to an other culture deposited therw - for some reason not yet discovered. Dated tomba are being found In Monte Alban, but archeologists can not yet read Zapotec Indian hiero glyphs, as they can Aztec and Mayan ones. Excavations of three seasons seemed 16 tlfrow the dead city fur ther and further back in time with- line of Industry there are Barrya and ou i t » defln,t e clue »■ to when It was Calthrops. We scan their earf^ In- a metropolis. Now there Is e clue. This Is a tlachtll, or ball court. Tlac^itll was a widespread Indian Butcher Shop “Do Luxe*' Late Paris Innovation Although the meat trade fias taken advantage of many scientific inventions, butchers' shops still pre sent a somewhat gruesome appear ance. A Paris doctor has now taken the first step .towards hygienic meat shops, and has opened one himself. He has proved that It Is possible to market clean, germ-proof meat, free from any feat of Infection. His salesmen are clad from head to foot In spotless white tunics, very much like those worn by surgeons. On their hands are antiseptic rub ber gh*ves. The salesmen and meat are enclosed In a huge glass cham ber in which the air, continually re newed and filtered is always at a temperature of 45 degrees F. No customers are allowed In, but they can see, distinctly, everything that Is going on Inside. They art fur- with coaa piste munlcate with the men Im •Ids through microphones and load- speakers. 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