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Oatmeal Muffins
2/3 c. oil
2 c. buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 c. brown sugar
2 c. flour
2 c. quick oats
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
Mix the first 3 ingredients and then combine dry
ingredients. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. DO NOT MIX MUFFINS
ANY LONGER THAN TO MOISTEN DRY INGREDIENTS - small lumps are normal.
Bake in 400 degree oven 18-20 minutes.
You can add fruits to this mixture as well and
nuts, try adding bananas, strawberries, blueberries..or blackberries if
you can find some wild ones ripening. Here in florida they just ripened
and go very well in the muffins. Back home on Cape Cod , I was lucky
enough to have white and black currents, blackberries, logan berries
(my personal favorite) , red raspberries and cranberries, as well as
cherries to choose from, and we also had japenese and english walnuts
growing on our property, so we always had a variety to choose from.
Experiment with whatever fresh produce is in your area, if it's too
liquidity, use less buttermilk.
I remember hot sunny days in July and for two
weeks we would all head to raspberry fields to pick boxes for customers
that had placed orders for many boxes. We used to sell them we had
around a 1/2 acre of huge red raspberry plants. The orders always came
in long before they were ripe, so as soon as July rolled around, we'd
start looking for red ones, and try to kill the wasp nests before they
got us, and scare away the black snakes. And my Nana would be out there
with the sprinkler to make 'um even more juicy. These were not like the
berries you find in the store . These berries were huge, some
measuring an inch, looked more like strawberries! And boy were they
good. We'd all come out of there with red hands from picking 20-30
boxes at a time. But we got to keep the $2.00 per box we got for them,
so we really didn't mind picking, it paid for new bicycles , and radios
that we couldn't otherwise afford. Whatever we picked that wasn't an
order to be filled went out front of the house to a roadside stand,
with a for sale sign. They were always gone as fast as we put them out.
Some times people would wait while we picked. It really was fun, to
this day I still enjoy going to the U-PICKS we have here in Florida.
Right now the blueberries are ripe in the U-PICKS. Around 8.00 a
gallon. So are the tomatoes. I have many that are just turning red
right now, but I now have tomato thieves, I caught them. Squirrels who
are picking then off the plants! Oh well, they have to eat to, but they
eat some and then store them up in the tree branches, so you look up
and see tomatoes in the trees, and it looks very strange...
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