Cherry-Almond Muffins 1747 circa
From hopscotch 13 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 36
These are the best muffins that I have ever had. It's rather up there with Coco's, but not as sweet. Anything goes in a muffin, no exception with this one. "The first muffin recipe, found in Hannah Glasse's 1747 book, "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy," begins, "To a bushel of Hertfordshire white flour, take a pint and a half of Good Ale Yeast. Read more .." Obviously, Hannah was cooking for a crowd. Muffins, at first a purely English specialty, gradually made their way to America, and by 1899 Theodore Francis Garrett was able to write, in his "The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery," "It has been claimed for the British baker that he alone can make a muffin; but it is almost to be feared, if this were ever so that the prestige has been passed over to America, where muffins are made of various flours, and so light and digestible that it is a question if they are not rather an American dish." Mention muffins today, and you'll conjure up visions of blueberry, date-nut, cranberry or other fruit muffins. Sweet summer fruits are a wonderful addition to a basic muffin batter; the following version teams cherries and almonds, a fruit and nut that were made for one another." See less
Ingredients
- *Bake Time depends on your oven - as an example, these were done in 20 minutes. I would use the toothpick test, that is, place in the center of a muffin, comes out clean, it's done. shopping list
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter shopping list
- 1 cup granulated sugar shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 2 cups King Arthur Unbleached all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 cup milk shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 2 cups cherries, pitted, coarsely chopped, and drained *1 shopping list
- 1 cup slivered almonds, lightly toasted *2 shopping list
- 1 teaspoon almond extract shopping list
- granulated sugar shopping list
- * not in the recipe, but as you can see, anything goes, I added some coconut flakes - I just merely eyeball the amount (1/4 cup, maybe) shopping list
- *1 substituted 2 cups cherries with 1 cup Dole figs and 1 cup dried cranberries. I soaked the cherries in warm water for about five minutes, then drained the excess water. shopping list
How to make it
- Sift together dry ingredients and add them to butter/sugar mixture alternately with milk. Stir in almond extract, then gently fold in almonds and cherries.
- Spoon muffin batter into 12 greased muffin cups; cups will be quite full. * Sprinkle each muffin with a little granulated sugar, and bake in a preheated 375°F oven for 30 minutes, or until muffins test done.
- This recipe reprinted from The Baking Sheet Newsletter, Vol. II, No. 8, August 1991 issue.
- You can also find the recipe at King Arthur's Flour website.
- * Oopsie, I didn't see this, so of course, I didn't MISS IT.
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