Mrs Neumann's Plum Muffins
This is another recipe from my sister, Pauline Neumann,
the comedian in the family.
My sister loves playing tricks on her family. She
has been known to hide in wardrobes at night and leap out
just after her kids have climbed into bed. How they
never had nightmares I'll never know.
Her trickery has, in some ways, been passed on to her
son, Adam. One day I took Adam and my son, Jeremy, to
visit a display home. They would have been about 15
and 13 years old, respectively, at the time.
I hadn't realized that Adam had quietly climbed into a
built-in wardrobe. Jeremy knew he was in there but had
gotten bored and wandered off elsewhere. Adam loomed out of the wardrobe just as some
poor unsuspecting man and his young daughter walked into the
bedroom. The poor man was even more startled than
necessary, bearing in mind that, even at age 15, Adam was
over 6' tall and skinny as a rake. The man must
have thought an over-sized stick insect had come to grab
him.
Laughing aside, here is my
sister's Plum Muffin Recipe:
The links immediately below are
not my recipes but you may find them interesting
anyway.
To convert any of these ingredients into US measurements please
use this
Quantity Conversion
Chart.
Ingredients:
2 and 1/2 cups
of self raising flour
3/4 cup whole meal self raising flour
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 and 1/2 cups skimmed milk
2/3 cup oil
5 - 6 very firm cooking plums, stoned and chopped
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Method:
Pre heat oven to 180
degrees Celsius.
Sift the dry
ingredients. Quickly add the wet ingredients. Combine
together without over-doing the beating. The mixture should
be only just combined. Pour into greased muffin
trays and cook at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees
Fahrenheit) for 20 25 minutes.
Makes 24
small muffins or 16 large muffins.
Notes:
If your
plums are not as firm as they could be then don't add
them to the bowl before beating. Just place the plain
muffin mixture in the trays and poke pieces of plum down
into the mixture.
This recipe
is delightful using mulberries too. As in the note above,
you should just push the mulberries down into the mixture.
My sister
tells me she has successfully used ricotta cheese in lieu of
the oil but I haven't tried this myself as yet.
Food Facts:
There are over 2000 varieties of plums in existence. Even
in ancient Roman times, there were already over 300 varieties of
European plums.
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