More muffins! I wanted to try something new, so I flipped through the
Complete Canadian Living Baking Book, a great bargain find at Winners, and picked out their Prairie Honey Oatmeal Muffins (p. 286). I guess the term 'prairie' means wholesome ingredients? I picked them because they seemed quite simple - and I had all the ingredients. After a delicious taco dinner at
Grand Electric, I didn't want anything too fancy. Yes, readers, on Fridays we have an early dinner and come home and watch TV and make muffins. The epitome of cool.
First, stir 1 cup oats with 1 cup buttermilk, let sit 15 min. The recipe called for large-flake oats - I had quick, don't think it made too much of a difference. Also, my buttermilk, as usual, was just regular milk with some cider vinegar added to sour it. Yum. Mix the dry ingredients: 1 c whole wheat flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp each baking soda and cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp salt.
The wet ingredients were stirred into the buttermilk/oat mixture: 1/3 cup each oil and honey, 1/4 cup brown sugar, and 1 egg, which were then added to the dry ingredients. It was a much thinner batter than I'm used to. Originally the recipe called for 1/3 cup sunflower seeds as well, but alas, the seeds I had in my freezer had gone bad (when they smell like Play-doh, throw them away!) so walnut pieces it was. Bake @375 for about 17 minutes.
No idea why the recipe said it made only 10 muffins - it made 12 easily. They had a nice crunchy top, and were super tender and fally-aparty - I guess because I'm used to 2 cups of flour, and these were half oats instead. Maybe the honey helped. Either way, they were sweet and delicious, and while a little plainer than I usually make, quite satisfying at breakfast/work break.
First, stir 1 cup oats with 1 cup buttermilk, let sit 15 min. The recipe called for large-flake oats - I had quick, don't think it made too much of a difference. Also, my buttermilk, as usual, was just regular milk with some cider vinegar added to sour it. Yum. Mix the dry ingredients: 1 c whole wheat flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp each baking soda and cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp salt.
The wet ingredients were stirred into the buttermilk/oat mixture: 1/3 cup each oil and honey, 1/4 cup brown sugar, and 1 egg, which were then added to the dry ingredients. It was a much thinner batter than I'm used to. Originally the recipe called for 1/3 cup sunflower seeds as well, but alas, the seeds I had in my freezer had gone bad (when they smell like Play-doh, throw them away!) so walnut pieces it was. Bake @375 for about 17 minutes.
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