3 cups warm milk.
½ cup yeast.
2 tablespoonfuls melted butter.
1 saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water.
Flour to make good batter.
Set these ingredients—leaving out the butter and soda—as a sponge.
When very light, beat in the melted butter, with a _very_ little flour,
to prevent the butter from thinning the batter too much; stir in the
soda hard, fill pattypans or muffin-rings with the mixture, and let
them stand fifteen minutes before baking.
This is an excellent, easy, and economical receipt.