Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Too Corny

MOPS tomorrow!

We're going with a spicy, Mexican, hot weather theme as far as food goes.

Hot cheesy-salsa dip with tortilla chips, vegetable platter with coloured peppers and tomatoes... and a savoury muffin I thought.

I hunted through my extensive cookbook collection and found "Bacon and Cornmeal Muffins", which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for.

I made a trial batch this morning.

UGH!

Total flop!

Dry, tasteless, more biscuit than muffin...

My baking reputation was in serious jeopardy!

I took one along to the pre-teen gathering this afternoon and subjected all the adults to a taste-test.

Verdict confirmed.

When my labours were done at the church I came home and let the experimentation begin:

Round one saw the amounts of cornmeal and flour rounded off and switched, and the baking powder, salt and sugar all increased.

Round two saw the melted margarine and butter replaced with Canola oil.

Round three had the milk increased by a quarter of a cup.

Although each batch is acceptable, the third muffin is really good- quite the best. I'll bring them all tomorrow morning as a bacon-free option for muffins. Tomorrow morning I'll bake up four dozen fresh "Round Three" muffins with bacon. 

Yup.

Third time's definitely the charm.

Thank God for imagination.

And a big bag of cornmeal...

3 comments:

  1. You make things too difficult for yourself. Just go to allrecipes.com and find the best rated recipe there. I made cornbread muffins on Sunday to go with our chili and they were delicious! Thanks to the allrecipes rating system. And then youcan comment with all the changes you made and how the recipe turned out.

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  2. Ah, but then I wouldn't have a new recipe to post on my recipe blog. It's the creative-artist-inventor in me that does it. I did a bunch of pre-testing research that included several cookbooks and bakers from church, but there is a certain satisfaction in knowing I perfected a printed recipe. And wrote it down so that someone else can make it and taste what I tasted.

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  3. haha. You're cute. I'm too lazy for that. :-)

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