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MUFFIN VARIATIONS--PART 1 OF 3
Muffins are marvelous! They're quick and easy to make, and there's
just nothing like a warm muffin at breakfast--especially if it's
filled with fruit or some other treat. Over the next three tips, we'll
present a basic muffin recipe and some variations--all of them simple
to make and all of them delicious. You can use this formula to develop
other muffin recipes that will suit your family's favorite tastes.
Each recipe makes about 12 muffins. Nutritional information for one
muffin made with the basic recipe: 133 calories, 5 grams fat, 20
milligrams cholesterol, 19 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram fiber, 3 grams
protein, 195 milligrams sodium.
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten, at room temperature
1 cup milk, at room temperature
3 tablespoons oil or melted butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease muffin cups or line with papers.
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Beat egg in another small bowl; add
milk and oil. Stir liquid ingredients into dry ones, just enough to
blend. The batter will look lumpy. Fill muffin cups two-thirds full.
Bake 20 minutes.
Blueberry: Increase sugar to 1/4 cup. Fold into batter 1 cup fresh or
frozen blueberries. Sprinkle tops of muffins with cinnamon-sugar
before baking, if you wish.
Buttermilk: Use buttermilk instead of milk. Decrease baking powder to
2-1/2 teaspoons. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda.
Cheese: Fold 1/2 cup grated cheese into batter.
Cherry: Fold 1 cup drained fresh, canned, or frozen cherries into
batter. (Chop sweet cherries before adding.) Add 2 extra tablespoons
sugar; for sour cherries, increase sugar to 1/2 cup.
Cornmeal: Replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup cornmeal. If desired, use
bacon drippings instead of oil, and fold 3 or 4 crumbled crisp bacon
strips into the batter.
Jam or jelly: Spoon some batter into muffin cups; add a teaspoon of
jam, jelly, or preserves; then add more batter.
Oatmeal: Replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup quick-cooking oats. Add 1/2
cup raisins or chopped dates, if desired.
Pineapple or strawberry: Replace milk with 1 cup crushed pineapple
including juice, or 1 cup crushed sweetened strawberries.
Whole wheat: Replace 1 cup flour with 1 cup whole wheat flour. Use
brown sugar instead of white.
Honey bran: Replace 1 cup flour with 3/4 cup whole wheat flour and 1/4
cup bran. Replace sugar with 1/4 cup honey. Reduce milk to 3/4 cup
plus 2 tablespoons.