welcome friends it's Sunday mornings we're gonna do another of our
depression-era recipes this time from my favourite recipe published by the Stayner
Sun in 1938 I needed some bran muffins fairly pedestrian recipe bran muffins
and in this recipe book there are three bran muffin recipes and they're each a
little bit different and so I had to choose one and I was I was helped a
little bit because this one has an X and I'm kind of going with X means No
based on some of the other ones with X's so I'm not gonna make that one which is
kind of sad because it has blackstrap molasses I really love blackstrap
molasses so I'm going to choose the bran muffin recipe number two submitted by
Hazel Gibson and so it starts out with 1 cup of thick sour cream and you want to
use a really good-quality sour cream sour cream is one of those sour cream is
one of those ingredients that I have a real problem with because most sour
cream out there today is crap if your sour cream has anything other than milk
cream milk ingredients and bacteria then it's it's it's horrible to work with it
really should have only two ingredients cream and bacteria but you know cream
milk ingredients bacteria if it has like a thickening agent like gelatin or guar
gum it's just not right the textures not right it's just I don't know I I just
you know buy quality because you're not going to use it that often in with some
sugar and now an egg and we'll mix that together
now just like almost every other recipe in these recipe books the author expects
you to make decisions along the way the the measurements are imprecise and they
want you to make decisions along the way so it doesn't tell me how much bran and
how much flour to use other than it's in a ratio of two to one but the exact
measurement it just says to to bring it together into a drop batter mix in
enough to make a drop batter so I've put the soda in with the first scoop of
flour and I'll put that in here and then I'll add two scoops of the bran and then
we'll see where we go from there one scoop two scoops and we'll see what
happens okay now that was a half cup scoop so I have put in a half cup of
flour and 1 cup of bran to this point I'm you know down to a quarter cup scoop
and just go in incrementally because I think we're pretty close and I don't
want to over scoop because I don't really know what hazel was talking about
she knew how to operate her kitchen I wasn't there
I think we're close I'm gonna try another quarter cup of flour which
brings me to another half cup of bran and I've learned it wouldn't be a
depression-era recipe without some chopped dates the recipe says chopped
dates but I'm sure you could put in raisins if you wanted to looks good
so the next the next thing is how do you bake them it just says bake in a
moderate oven for 25 minutes doesn't say how many is it six is it twelve is it
six is it twelve I have a feeling that it's six but I'm gonna use the twelve
cup just in case you know if I have some empty cups that's fine I'm gonna use a
scoop I'm sure that I'm sure that a scoop would not have been used I just
find it's easier for portioning so let's see eleven eleven muffins into the oven
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven I opened I only got 11 I
didn't eat one they know they know but I only filled 11 cups and I well it could
be a smaller they could have been a smaller tin could have been a smaller
tuna and there's the thing downstairs in the equipment room we've got probably
lots of different tin shapes we've probably got four or five different
sized cups that are all positive muffin regular muffin yeah and then we've got
the really big ones and we've got the really tiny ones that are that are odd
sizes but there's a whole bunch of these that are just a little bit different
each one so so this is basic brand although I see Hazel Gibson yep we did
Hazel's add some added some sour cream clearly I won't say you made the one
above it but grandma put an X then her grandmother did not like that no I could
have been a lot of reasons so I'm interested to try these we've got a nice
crisp kind of come apart nicely mm-hmm weather
dates dates envision oh you can't have our tickets
I guess these were just more common I think more common than we license yeah
yeah mm-hmm that's a bran muffin I need butter cuz I think all bran
muffins need butter but it's still moist it's not dry no um I just think butter
and bran muffin the flavors complement hmm there's not a whole lot of sugar in
it but yet they still seem sweet because I think the dates bring a lot of
sweetness even though there's not many dates in it about days I mean dates are
often a really great sugar substitute yeah um and I wonder if it was easier to
keep dates if dates were less expensive than refined sugar we're available I
don't have I don't know I think there's some research that needs to happen to
the whole date versus raisin thing because there's more dates in all of
these recipes than raisins sadly I've known to directly ask anymore but well I
like these muffins I think they're a pretty good option you know and they're
not overly sugars so if you're looking for a healthier bran muffin that isn't
you know 2 cups of sugar and there's no oil oh so no oil no sugar
well everything comes from the South only a little bit of sugar yeah
everything comes from the sour cream that's pretty good
yeah these are fantastic I'm giving a try thanks for stopping by so you can
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