All-Bran Muffins
Arwilda kept both the printed Kellogg's recipe and a handwritten copy.
Kellogg's printed recipe card
From Kellogg's wordmark and Kellogg Tested seal.
Yield: 8 large muffins (3" in diameter) or 12 small (2¼" in diameter).
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup Kellogg's All-Bran
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2½ teaspoons baking powder
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly; add egg and beat until creamy. Add All-Bran and milk; let soak until the moisture is taken up. Sift flour with salt and baking powder; add to first mixture and stir only until flour disappears. Fill greased muffin pans two-thirds full and bake in moderate oven (400° F.) about 30 minutes.
Timing: about 30 minutes
Temperature: 400° F.
Equipment: greased muffin pans, mixing vessel, beating and stirring utensils, sifter, and oven
Notes
- The card also prints H. E-119 and Printed in U. S. A.
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box partial handwritten card
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon shortening
- 1/4 cup sugar
- eggs are required by step 3, but no egg quantity appears in the ingredient list
- 1 cup All Bran
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 cup sifted flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon of an unnamed ingredient
Directions
- (1) Measure shortening into bowl
- (2) Add sugar cream well
- Add eggs one at a time
- Add All Bran
Equipment: mixing bowl; creaming and beating utensil
Compare the cards
Title on the card
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box partial handwritten card
- All Bran Muffins
- Kellogg's printed recipe card
- All-Bran Muffins
One-half-teaspoon ingredient
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box partial handwritten card
- 1/2 teaspoon, ingredient name absent
- Kellogg's printed recipe card
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Method, yield, and variation
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box partial handwritten card
- Method stops after Add All Bran; no egg quantity, soaking, flour addition, pan filling, baking data, yield, or sour-milk variation is included
- Kellogg's printed recipe card
- Complete formula and method; yield of 8 large or 12 small muffins; sour-milk or buttermilk leavening variation
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