I am trying to get better about soaking my grains, but it takes some
planning so I can’t do any spur of the moment baking. Slowing down the baking
process is good because it makes me really think about what I want to bake and
the flavor combinations that I want to use. Ginger and rhubarb are not two
things that I would normally put together, but after thinking about for a while
I decided that I would really enjoy the flavor combination of ginger and
rhubarb together.
The ginger rhubarb muffins came out spicy, sweet, and with nice patches
of sour rhubarb spread throughout the muffin. I cut the rhubarb up finely so I would
not get huge pockets of sour rhubarb. I used honey as my sweetener for this
recipe, so the muffins did not come out as sweet as muffins using white sugar,
but they were still delicious. The ginger added a nice fresh spicy quality to
the muffins. Miss Bubbles ate three of the muffins while I was trying to take
the picture for this blog post, so she is a huge fan. I found myself having to
ration out these muffins to her so would not eat them all in one sitting.
Ingredients (makes 18 medium size muffins)
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2/3 cup cultured buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp salt
- 3 tsp baking powder
- ¼ cup flax seed, ground
- ¼ cup honey bee pollen
- 1/4” piece of ginger root, finely chopped
- 2/3 cup honey
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 3 eggs
- 1 lb rhubarb stalks, cut into 1/8” pieces (this produces about 3 ½ cups)
- 18 paper liners
- Muffin tin, medium size
Directions
1. Mix the flour
and buttermilk in a medium size bowl.
Let the mixture soak over night in a warm place.
2. Preheat the
oven to 300 degrees F.
3. Mix the
flour/buttermilk mixture with the vanilla, salt, baking powder, flax, honey bee
pollen, ginger root, honey, applesauce, eggs, and rhubarb. Stir well.
4. Place the paper
liners in the muffin tin.
5. Ladle the muffin
batter into the paper lined muffin tin filling each hole 3/4 full.
6. Bake the muffins
for 25-30 minutes on the center rack or until a toothpick inserted in the middle
of the muffins comes out clean.
Posted on Seasonal Recipe Round Up
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What is honey bee pollen?
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine, honey bee pollen is pollen that bees carry back to the hive. Honey farmers can set traps to capture the honey bee pollen. Honey bee pollen is very rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals. However, if you have an allergy to honey, then you should skip the honey bee pollen. Honey bee pollen can usually be purchased at your farmers market at the honey stand or at health food stores. Our local health food store sells it beside the honey.
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