Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Here’s some recipes that will get your day started on the right foot!

PRE-PREP:
  1. Place oven rack in middle of oven
  2. Preheat oven to 400
  3. Grease muffin tin
INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 ¾ cup flour, white or unbleached
  • ¼ cup wheat germ or bran
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 1/3 cup oil or melted margarine
  • 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
PREPARATION:
  1. In large bowl: sift flour, sugar, baking powder & salt together and make a well in the middle for the wet ingredients.
  2. Combine egg, milk & oil and add all at once to the well you made in the dry ingredients.
  3. Add blueberries and stir in.
  4. MIX ONLY UNTIL DRY INGREDIENTS ARE MOST!!
  5. Fill greased muffin tin cups 2/3 full.
  6. Bake at 400 for about 20-25 minutes
  7. Remove from muffin tins – don’t let the muffins sit in the hot tins.
  8. Makes 12 muffins.

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PREPREP:

  1. Place oven rack in middle of oven
  2. Preheat oven to 425
  3. Grease muffin tin

INGREDIENTS:

  • ¼ cup oil or melted margarine
  • ¼ cup sugar, white
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 ¾ cup flour, white or unbleached
  • 2 Tbsp (or more) wheat germ or bran
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • Dash nutmeg (optional)
  • ½ cup nuts, chopped (walnuts/pecans)

PREPARATION:

  1. In large bowl, mix oil, sugar & egg and mix well.
  2. Add applesauce to sugar mixture.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder, salt & cinnamon (& nutmeg) together & add w/germ to wet ingredients.
  4. MIX ONLY UNTIL DRY INGREDIENTS ARE MOST!!
  5. Add nuts.
  6. Fill greased muffin tin cups 2/3 full.
  7. Bake at 375 for 20-30 minutes.

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PRE-PREP:

  1. Place oven rack in middle of oven
  2. Preheat oven to 425
  3. Grease muffin tin

MUFFIN MIXTURE:

  • 1 cup sifted flour, white or unbleached
  • ½ cup sugar, white
  • 2 ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup oats, quick or old fashioned
  • ½ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup nuts, chopped (walnuts/pecans)
  • ¾ cup milk
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil or melted margarine
  • 1 egg, beaten

TOPPING:

Mix together & set aside:

  • 2 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp sugar

PREPARATION:

  1. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder & salt together in large bowl.
  2. Add oats, raisins & nuts to the flour ingredient bowl.
  3. Combine milk, oil & eggs and add them to the flour ingredient bowl.
  4. MIX ONLY UNTIL DRY INGREDIENTS ARE MOST!!
  5. Fill greased muffin tin cups ½ full.
  6. Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon mixture over tops of uncooked muffins.
  7. Put in 425 oven for about 15 minutes.
  8. Done when nicely tan.
  9. Turn muffins out on a rack – don’t leave them in the hot tin very long.

VARIATION:

Fill muffin tin cups ¼ full with mixture, THEN put a dab of your favorite jam/jelly on top.
Finish filling the muffin tin cup till about ½ or so full.
Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon mixture over tops and bake.

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One of the Ellenberger’s favorites!

This recipe is really only for 2-3 people, so Don usually ends up doubling or tripling the recipe.

Ingredients

3

2 tsp

2 tsp

3 tsp

1 tsp

1 cup

1 cup

2 Tbsp

 

Eggs,

Sugar, granulated

Sugar, brown

Baking powder

Salt

Flour, sifted

Buttermilk (fat free, low fat, whatever)

Butter, melted

 

Instructions

  1. You are going to need to have a griddle or frying pan ready.

  2. Sift the flour & set aside.

  3. In large bowl, lightly beat the eggs.

  4. Stir into the eggs, in this order: both sugars, baking powder, salt.

  5. Then add flour, buttermilk & melted butter.

  6. Stir gently only until mixed. DO NOT OVERBEAT!!

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