Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

Whenever someone asks me what I feed my kids every day, I often reply, “Muffins”. These kid pleasers have been a staple in our family since I first purchased a wheat grinder back in 1989.
I thought I would use this post to outline the steps to making great muffins from scratch. I made up this Vegan Recipe this morning, and took pictures as I went along.
First I started with a simple recipe:
4 C Freshly gound Whole Wheat Flour
1 tsp Sea Salt
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 C Brown Sugar
1 Can Pear Sauce (I used Pear sauce because I have several cases of it on hand, but applesauce will also work)
1/2 C Olive Oil
1/2 C Water

A Bin of Organic White Wheat next to my Whisper Mill Wheat Grinder

Grinding the Wheat

Adding more wheat to the mill

Measuring the flour

Adding in the Soda, Salt, and Powder

Measuring Baking Powder

Mixing Dry Ingredients

Adding in Pear Sauce

Adding in Olive Oil

Adding in water

Gently Mix the dough until it is all wet

I use an ice cream scoop to put the muffin dough in the pans

Finished muffins. Just after I pulled these out of the oven, my husband and kids were leaving for the day, and they snatched them up before I could get a picture of the whole pan of finished muffins. This recipe makes two full pans of muffins, and they need to be baked at 375 for twenty minutes.
Jenny Hatch
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