Quick Breads/Muffins

Cherry Cranberry Muffin Cake is just what it sounds like: muffins that have become cake. Credit for the muffin cake concept goes to Dorie Greenspan. Writing in Baking From My Home to Yours, describes having readied the ingredients for apple nut muffins only to have her brunch guests show up….

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Chocolate Malted Muffins

February 14, 2022

Chocolate malted muffins? Chocolate for breakfast? Okay, a muffin barely this side of cupcake isn’t exactly breakfast of champions. This said, the chocolate malted muffin’s nutrition profile may be improved by exchanging chocolate chips for dried fruits or nuts. Consider dried cranberries, currants, or a handful of almonds. Frozen strawberries…

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Ah, November. The container ships are in backed up in the harbor, and with them, some of the holiday craziness normally upon us by now. Am I a grinch to be grateful? Not that I hate the holidays. I don’t. But the enforced cheer is wearying, especially when it starts…

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A bap, if you are wondering, is a Scottish breakfast roll. The recipe below comes from Elizabeth David’s English Bread And Yeast Cookery, published in 1977. David, never one to mince words, rails against the state of English bread. If your copy has American notes by culinary historian Karen Hess,…

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Apple Cider Muffins

October 24, 2020

Last year I was reading a cookbook that gave a recipe for baked apple cider doughnuts. Not fried, leaving you with gallons of used lard to somehow unload. Have you ever read a cookbook that told you what to do with used cooking oil? Me either. Anyway. My husband, he…

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