Muffins muffins muffins

sb44

Swan wrote: »

yes, I substituted chopped chocolate for the chips in the original recipe, initially because it was cheaper, but now I find I like the chunks better

I'd tried to make muffins before with no success, but since I got that book I can make great muffins, even though I say so myself

there are a lot of much fancier books around now, but that one gives you all the basics you need to get started

Sorry Swan, forgot to ask.

Before I order it which edition do you use the 2001 or 2008 one? I see that one person says the recipes in the new edition are slightly different in that they contain more sugar than the earlier book.

Penelope_Penguin

sb44 wrote: »

I have just been reading a few reviews about the book at Amazon and it sounds impressive so I am going to order it.

My husband can't see how many variations of sweet muffins there can be (he doesn't want to try savoury ones, says muffins are meant to be sweet), but I am going to ignore him (nothing new there) and order it.

I'm with your DH there I use Delia's basic muffin recipe, then substitute a similar weight of alternative ingredients for the blueberries and nuts

To that recipe I use one mashed banana and some nuts of choc chips, and they come out great :T

I make up my muffin flavours depending on what I fancy or what we have in.

Swan_2

sb44 wrote: »

Sorry Swan, forgot to ask.

Before I order it which edition do you use the 2001 or 2008 one? I see that one person says the recipes in the new edition are slightly different in that they contain more sugar than the earlier book.

mine is one of the old ones

I could PM you a few recipes & see what you think of them?

Swan_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I'm with your DH there I use Delia's basic muffin recipe, then substitute a similar weight of alternative ingredients for the blueberries and nuts

To that recipe I use one mashed banana and some nuts of choc chips, and they come out great :T

I make up my muffin flavours depending on what I fancy or what we have in.

improvisation is great fun

my daughter & I made fudge muffins, basic recipe with fudge chunks in, then when they came out of the oven we glazed them with sugar syrup & sprinkled on tiny tiny miniscule cubes of fudge

I couldn't eat them, far too sweet for me, but the folk who did try them loved them

sb44

I have just found the authors website and she shows the contents of the book which looks quite interesting.

http://www.cherrytreepublications.co.uk/muffins/complete-contents

If you could pm me the banana recipe Swan that would be great.

I think I will try that as I have a few over ripe bananas in, if it is a success then I will order it.

sb44

Swan, it's ok, she has put the banana muffin recipe on her site.

http://www.cherrytreepublications.co.uk/articles/banana-muffin-recipe

Many thanks for the offer, hope that I have stopped you before you start typing.

Swan_2

sb44 wrote: »

Swan, it's ok, she has put the banana muffin recipe on her site.

http://www.cherrytreepublications.co.uk/articles/banana-muffin-recipe

Many thanks for the offer, hope that I have stopped you before you start typing.

glad you found a recipe I hadn't started typing, I got distracted by the 'kids'


& thanks so much for the link, it's really interesting seeing what Susan Reimer's doing now, & that it's so different from writing about muffins!

'although I’m having fun working out new forms of baking using only a hotplate + frying pan + cover!). I’m glad Muffins continues to live on in Britain and I’ll still be able to check my email from time to time if you’d like to get in touch. But meanwhile, if you order a copy of Muffins, you’ll know where the money is going. And when you take the next fresh batch of muffins out of the oven, you can think of Malawi!' :A
I'm tempted to treat myself to a new copy

actually, I just checked mine & it's the 1996 edition, I think it was probably one of the first books (if not the first) to show how to do American muffins properly, loads more have been published since then
I did a search on Amazon & gave up counting at 25, so there's lots of choice out there if you don't fancy this particular one



PS ... a tip when choosing a book, if it's one that has no reviews on Amazon UK, try searching for it on Amazon US, quite often you'll find some comments there

PPS ... although it's good for reviews, quite often Amazon isn't the cheapest place to buy a book, check HERE first

sb44

Well, I made the banana ones from the book this morning and my husband loved them.

To be honest I was going to put some choc chips in there but forgot so although they were tasty, they could have done with being a bit sweeter for me as I do have a sweet tooth.

I remembered to sieve the flour today although I only did it once and I have read somewhere that they will rise more if you do it twice.

I need to go and buy a muffin tray though as I used one of those that you put paper cases in for fairy cakes so the muffin cases didn't sit in them properly.

They did rise but would rise a lot more if I get a proper tray as they tended to go outwards rather than upwards due to lack of support.

I have half a punnet of strawberries left in the fridge that need using up, does anyone know if I use them in the same recipe instead of the bananas they will be ok?

Swan_2

I've never tried strawberries in muffins, but I have a book that uses them in some recipes, pureed in 1 & chopped in the other 2

so I don't see why you can't give it a try

let us know how it goes

sb44

Swan wrote: »

I've never tried strawberries in muffins, but I have a book that uses them in some recipes, pureed in 1 & chopped in the other 2

so I don't see why you can't give it a try

let us know how it goes

Yep, will let you know how I get on.

I have just seen some Prestige muffin trays in Argos for £7.99 and you get a 2nd bakeware piece for half price so I think I may go for the Prestige loaf tin, both for just over £10.