Herself's Recipes

Sinful Raspberry Corn Muffins

This is a sweet breakfast muffin. I use both fresh raspberries and jelly, but you can use which ever is on hand rather than both of them. It is a very rich, moist muffin so it won’t need butter or anything on it.

Mix:
1 cup flour
1 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 1/2 Tablespoons lemon zest
1 1/2 sticks melted butter
3/4 cup of milk
2 egg yolks
1 egg

Mix well until well blended, do not over mix.

Mix in a separate bowl:
1 package (~6oz ) fresh raspberries
2 Tablespoons raspberry jam
1 teaspoon sugar

Mix until the raspberries are all broken up then gently swirl the raspberries into the batter.
Pour into oiled muffin tins.
Bake at 400′ ~ 20 minutes.

**Usually corn bread is baked in an already warmed up pan. So put a bit of butter or oil in the muffin tin and put the muffin tin in the oven while the oven heats up and you are mixing the batter.

Corn muffins are the official state muffin of Massachusetts. Corn bread ( muffins ) were discovered by the American Indians and brought back to Europe.

Cooks in New England use yellow cornmeal and add molasses or sugar, cooks in the South Eastern US use white corn meal and often fry the dough.

These are baked apple pancakes similar to the ones served at Bickfords restaurant. (They are very similar to German Pancakes) Although I can single handily down one of these in a sitting, it should serve two. (Otherwise one would tend to grow out rather than up.) Any of the apples typically used in apple pies work fine in this recipe. (Rome, Granny Smith, Empire, ect.)

Preheat the oven to 425′ F

In a pie plate melt a tablespoon of butter in the oven while you put the batter together.

In a large bowl mix:
2 Tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Peel and slice 2 good size apples
Add the apple slices to the butter mixture and stir until the apple slices are well coated

In a separate bowl mix batter:
1/2 cup flour (unsifted)
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
Beat until well mixed

Take the pan out of the oven with the melted butter:
Add the batter
Add the coated apple slices gently on top of the batter
Bake about 20 minutes

Serve this with either butter or maple syrup.
Helpful hint: to keep potatoes from budding place an apple in the bin with them.

There was once a man from the city who was visiting a small farm, and during this visit he saw a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the pig was satisfied, then he would start again with another pig. The city man watched this activity for some time with great astonishment. Finally, he could not resist saying to the farmer, “This is the most inefficient method of feeding pigs that I can imagine. Just think of the time that would be saved if you simply shook the apples off the tree and let the pigs eat them from the ground!” The farmer looked puzzled and replied, “What’s time to a pig?”