{"id":534,"date":"2011-09-03T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=534"},"modified":"2011-09-03T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:34:05","slug":"date-bran-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Date Bran Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"

These bring back memories of the Bran Muffins we used to get at Smitty’s Pancake house back in the 70s. My brother Bill and I worked together at Smitty’s and the favourite coffee break snack was a Bran Muffin fresh out of the oven with a portion of whippped butter and a dollop of honey. Yummers!<\/p>\n

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Wonderfully moist!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1 1\/2 cups Raw Bran
\n1 cup Buttermilk
\n1\/3 cup Vegetable Oil
\n1 large Egg
\n2\/3 cup Brown Sugar
\n1 1\/2 teaspoons Vanilla<\/p>\n

1 cup Flour
\n1 teaspoon Baking Soda
\n1 teaspoon Baking Powder
\n1teaspoon Cinnamon
\npinch of ground Cloves
\n1\/2 teaspoon Salt<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup Chopped Dates<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 375F (190C)
\nLine muffin tin with paper liners.<\/p>\n

In small mixing bowl combine bran and buttermilk and let sit for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ground cloves, salt and chopped dates; make a well in the center.<\/p>\n

In small mixing bowl, lightly beat the egg, add vanilla and vegetable oil.
\nStir brown sugar into buttermilk soaked bran then add egg mixture and continue stirring.<\/p>\n

Pour the combined wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until all the flour is moistened. The batter will be lumpy.<\/p>\n

Using a 5 ounce Pampered Chef scoop, or a heaping tablespoon, \u00a0portion batter into prepared muffin tin.<\/p>\n

Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, rotate and continue baking for another 7 – 10 minutes.
\nRemove from oven when pick inserted comes out clean and let rest, in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
\nTurn out of muffin tin to cool completely.<\/p>\n

Yield: 12 muffins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These bring back memories of the Bran Muffins we used to get at Smitty’s Pancake house back in the 70s. My brother Bill and I worked together at Smitty’s and the favourite coffee break snack was a Bran Muffin fresh out of the oven with a portion of whippped butter and a dollop of honey. … Continue reading Date Bran Muffins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow-me-through-my-cooking-journey","category-muffins-and-scones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}