Okay. I’ll admit it. Little Miss Can’t-Follow-Directions (that would be me) changed grandma’s recipe a bit while trying to “healthify” it. Grandma got it from Kellogg’s, but I didn’t even use anything Kellogg’s. Maybe next time, grandma…
Makes 12 small muffins. Cooks 25 minutes at 400 degrees.
What you’ll need:
1 cup Multi-grain hot cereal (I used Hodgson Mill’s Multi-grain with milled flaxseed and Soy).
3/4 cup 2% milk
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
a little less than 1/3 cup honey
2 eggs
3 tablespoons milled flax-seed
1 tablespoon cold-pressed olive oil
How to make it:
1. Combine the cereal and milk in mixing bowl.
2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add to soaked cereal along with honey, egg, flax-seed and oil. Stir only until combined.
3. Fill olive-oiled greased muffin pans and bake in pre-heated oven at 400 degrees F. about 25 minutes.
End Result:
Delicious! I thought they were just a tad dry, most likely due to the milled flax-seed I used instead of oil. That’s fixable. Moist on the inside. Not too sweet. Tasted just like something my grandmother would have made. Next time, I’ll double batch it! Heck, next time, I’ll probably follow her recipe…
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Jennifer
I love a hearty muffin for breakfast, will have to try these.
LOL Little Miss Can’t Follow Directions! That’s how I cook too! I’m planning on shopping for stuff and cooking some fun stuff this weekend- we will see if I can stick to directions too!
The muffins sound really good! I’ve also heard of instead of like oil or butter, you can use applesauce to make things healthier- never tried it, but I think it would taste good? May have to try that!
oh these look good enough to replicate, yes, i am also a recipe morpher..i use what i have or feel like using..have all sorts of small grains and flour.
i will put a few spoons of apple sauce–it is a safe moisturizer, and one spoon of mayonnaise, as it helps to distribute the goodness throughout the batter..
these can help me to use up my cupboard surplus..i had been too busy warming up large refractory bricks in the oven to store heat to warm that end of the house at night..so did not bake much this past season.
@Denlyn3–my hubby really liked them!
@Beth—Good to know I’m not the only one. Looking forward to seeing what you do with all those Asian ingredients! And yes, I’ve tried the apple sauce before. It does work well. Makes it moist, and you can’t even taste it!
@Nadine—Never heard of the mayo. It’s another fat, I never thought of that! I like it!
I read this comment to Matt about using the stove to warm the bricks instead of baking and we laughed. You’re so cute!
matt and jennifer, i don’t eat the bricks, but, i buy food with the dollars saved with slow release radiating heat from those large flat bricks–does that count?
wrapped in towels, they warm your bed so well that you will never need an electric blanket..of course down there–you don’t care..
and as foot warmers..super spoiler!
or–to keep that special dish warm as you serve the hundreds of friends who support your green efforts?
haven’t done muffins yet, today is too beautiful to spend indoors..i’ m an incorrigible dirt digger..i may have been a chipmunk once. hey, you said i was cute didn’ t you?
@Nadine—we won’t be down here in the south forever. We’ll have to take this idea and tuck it away for when we move. This if from the wood burning stove, yes?
A chipmunk. Yes, adorable!
sadly no jennifer, no wood stove in our new centenarian house..it is a regular electric cookstove here. i place them in the oven @ 200 and when they are too hot to touch, i simply shut it down and either open the door or take them out with a thick towel to use as a warmer for feet, lap, knees, or bed.. this year has been mild though. it saves a lot on the furnace use as it is a constant heat source and expansion.
signed: fat chipmunk..on spring greens detox. cleansing winter’s luxuries.
I love this idea, Nadine! It reminds me of when we were little and we lived in south GA (but on the other side of the state) and we had this big, open house that was nice and drafty in the summer but in winter, everywhere stayed cold. We had a wood stove and the three of us fought to stand next to it. If you put your hands right above it, you could feel the heat. Mama would heat water on it by placing the pot directly on the top flat surface. We could have done that with stones. If only she had known…
I would never have thought to use the oven! I like it.
then let me add that any solid hard surfaced rock will do to store and release radiant heat..the idea of using water as heat transmission works well also.
.i used to stew tough meats atop the stove and kept every cast iron kettle or dutch oven busy as well..i oiled and seasoned them to keep from rusting..the ambient humidity also was a factor in heat perception..
here i block unused rooms or hang a sheet between, yes a single sheet will minimize heat loss, stick your bare arm through to cold side and find out..it’s amazing..
once you have baked, place the bricks/stones back in the oven and harvest the slow warmth for the night, be sure to keep oven DOOR CLOSED–to avoid disabling your thermostat..the heat seems so slow at first, but wait, an hour later you feel relaxed and breathe easier…( if you have made sure the oven is clean of course)
i’ll post a comprehensive warming post before next winter on verdigrass..