Oven-Ready Bran Muffins
(Recipe compliments of Hodgson's Mill)

Mix batter according to directions.  Store in refrigerator.
Bake muffins at your convenience.

3 cups unprocessed wheat bran
1 cup boiling water
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups buttermilk

Mix 1 cup wheat bran with 1 cup boiling water; stir and let water absorb into bran.
In a separate bowl blend sugar and butter.  Measure and combine flour, baking soda
and salt.  Combine the moist bran with beaten eggs, the remaining 2 cups of bran,
buttermilk, blended sugar-butter mixture, and flour, soda and salt mixture.  Stir until
well blended.

Place in the refrigerator for future use, or bake at once.  When preparing to bake,
preheat oven to 400 deg. F.  Stir batter well and spoon into prepared muffin tins.
Bake 15 minutes.  Keep remaining mixture ini airtight container for 2 - 4 weeks.
Yield - 2 dozen muffins.
 

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