Harriets Bran Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 F degrees.
• In a mixing bowl, combine wheat bran, flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder; stir well to blend.
• In a separate mixing bowl, beat egg.
• Add brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, molasses, raisins and chopped dried apricots and mix well to blend.
• Add liquid ingredients all at once to the dry ingredients.
• Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.
• Line a 12 cup muffin baking pan with paper liners.
• Fill cups 3/4 full with mixture.
• Bake in preheated 375 F oven for 20 to 23 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
• Remove muffins to a wire rack to cool.
• As a variation, replace 1/2 cup natural wheat bran wih 1/2 cup of oat bran and then increase the buttermilk to 1 1/3 cups.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F and lightly spray muffin pans with cooking spray or line with cupcake papers.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together.
• Mix together boiling water and all bran.
• cream together Crisco, sugar, eggs, and buttermilk in a separate large bowl.
• Add bran mixture, bran buds, allspice, flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Mix only until flour is absorbed.
• Fill muffin tins 2/3 full.
• Bake; check after 15 minutes, may need an extra few minutes to bake.
• Use as much batter as needed; cover and store extra batter in refrigerator for up to two weeks.