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I need to buy a new copy of the cookbook - right now I just google for it every time. Ana asked for this recipe, and I would direct her to google but in fact the site I used has some wonky formatting, so I'm going to type out the recipe here.

Glazed Orange Muffins (see note)

Source: "Dairy Hollow House: Soup & Bread," by Crescent Dragonwagon

Ingredients:

2 c Unbleached all-purpose flour
2 1/2 ts Baking Powder
1/4 ts Baking soda (see note)
1/3 to 1/2 c sugar (depending on how sweet you like your muffins)
1/4 ts salt
zest and juice of 1 orange; freshly grated (see note)
1 ts Vanilla extract
1/4 c Milk; or more as needed to make one cup, two tablespoons of milk + orange juice
1 lightly beaten egg, large
1/3 c Butter, melted and cooled

Glaze

1/3 c orange juice
1/2 c sugar

Preheat oven to 400 F. Combine dry ingredients in one bowl, mix well. Measure out your orange juice, add milk until the total is one cup plus 2 tablespoons of milky orange juice. Combine wet ingredients except butter in another bowl. Add wet ingredients to dry, stir until just mixed, fold in butter. Butter or line a muffin tin. Bake at 400 for 15 - 20 minutes.

While the muffins are baking, combine the remaining sugar and orange juice in a skillet. (Don't use cast iron if you can help it, you will impart a metallic taste to the glaze.) Heat up and stir thoroughly for about five minutes or a little longer. The syrup should still be liquid. Drench over muffins as they come out of the oven.

Makes 12.

Note 1: The cookbook notes that this recipe works for lemon muffins too. Just replace "oranges" with "lemons" and definitely use the greater amount of sugar in your muffins.
Note 2: Crescent Dragonwagon suggests dissolving the baking soda in the wet ingredients for a slightly different texture. Do whichever you prefer.
Note 3: I never zest or juice my own oranges. I buy a single serving of juice from the corner store, or a small carton, and that's enough juice. Then I add some orange extract to the batter. Much less effort, more consistent results

Date: 2019-10-07 12:21 am (UTC)
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Me, too. One or two per cookbook, if I'm lucky. If I was smart, I'd go through the lot, copy out the recipes, print them, put them into my loose-leaf cookbook, and give the books away. I never buy cookbooks now. I only borrow them from the library.

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