• 2 cups, flour
• 1 tablespoon butter
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon molasses
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup milk

Mix dry ingredients and sieve twice, rub in the butter. Separate the egg. Beat the yolk and add it to the milk and molasses. Mix with the dry ingredients and stir until smooth. Fold in the beaten white of egg and pour into hot, well greased muffin tins. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes in hot oven.