Sourdough Gingerbread Muffins Food

SOURDOUGH GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Sift together flour, spices, and salt.
• Cream sugar and oil/butter until well blended.
• Add molasses and egg, beating continuously.
• Add four mixture to mixer in 3 additions. Mix well.
• Mix 2 tbs hot water with soda until soda is dissolved. Add to mixer and mix well.
• Gently mix in sourdough starter.
• Bake in greased muffin pans for about 15-20 minutes. The muffins are done when you poke them with a toothpick and the toothpick comes out clean.

HOLIDAY BREAKFAST GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Cream margarine and sugar together in large bowl.
• Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add molasses and milk.
• Beat until mixed.
• Combine remaining 7 ingredients in medium bowl.
• Add to margarine mixture.
• Stir until just moistened.
• Fill greased muffin cups 3/4 full.
• Bake in 375°F oven for about 20 minutes until wooden pick inserted in centre of muffin comes out clean.
• Let stand in pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto wire rack to cool.
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SOURDOUGH ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Night Before:.
• Mix starter, honey and milk in mixing bowl until smooth.
• Add 4 cups flour, mixing in 2 cups at a time.
• Mix only until the flour is thoroughly wet.
• Cover with clean towel and leave at room temperature in a draft free place for 12-16 hours.
• Next Morning:.
• Stir down mixture.
• Sprinkle a scant teaspoon baking soda and 2 teaspoons salt over the surface of the dough and work into dough.
• Flour board with 1 cup flour and knead until dough is medium stiff - adding more flour as needed. The dough should be moist but not sticking to your hands.
• Once enough flour has been added, knead an additional 5 minutes until the dough forms a smooth ball.
• Roll dough on floured board to about 1/2 inch thick.
• Cut the dough with a 3-4 inch round cutter -- keeping them uniform in thickness and diameter.
• Place them on wax paper sprinkled with corn meal, taking care that they do not touch.
• Sprinkle corn meal over tops of muffins.
• Allow to rise in warm place, covered, for about an hour or until risen again.
• Preheat a griddle or frying pan with small amount of butter (add a little olive oil to keep from smoking). If using muffin rings, preheat them on the grill.
• Using a low flame or heat setting, bake one side for 4-5 minutes and turn. Place lid over the muffins to help them cook all the way through. Turn only once so be sure the one side is cooked before turning.
• Squish down a bit with spatula and pan bake other side for another 4-5 minutes.
• Look like store bought . . . taste even better!

SOURDOUGH ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• The morning before you want to enjoy your English muffins, prepare your dough: In a large measuring cup or medium bowl, whisk together starter, water, honey and oil.
• Select a container or bowl that will hold at least 3 quarts, as this dough will grow 3 to 4 times in size. Add the flour and salt to it, making a well in the center. Pour the liquid mixture into the well and stir with your hands, clawing the mixture and flipping it occasionally until no flour streaks remain, and you are left with a dense, shaggy, wet ball. Scrape the bowl as needed to integrate sneaky flour pockets.
• Cover loosely with a lid or inverted plate. Tuck in a warm, draft-free place and allow it to nearly quadruple in volume over the next 8 to 12 hours.
• Dust a work surface heavily with flour. Prepare a large baking sheet by coating it with a light dusting of polenta, followed by a dusting of flour.
• Deflate the dough by scraping it down in the bowl with a spatula. Transfer the dough to the dusted work surface. (Do not dust the surface of your dough, as you want it to stick to itself.) Using a bowl scraper, bench knife or lightly floured hands, pick up the dough from underneath, stretch and fold it like a business letter: bottom third up to the middle, top third down. Using the bowl scraper, flip your dough onto the prepared baking sheet so the folded side is now the underside.
• Lightly flour the top surface of your dough, then grease a rolling pin with neutral oil and roll your dough out to 1/2-inch thick, using additional oil on the pin if the dough begins to stick.
• Press a piece of plastic wrap onto the surface and tuck it around the edges of the dough to prevent it from drying out. Refrigerate the dough for at least 4 hours, or up to overnight for a more pronounced sour flavor.
• When ready to cook, heat your largest cast-iron pan over medium-low and lightly grease with neutral oil.
• Remove dough from the fridge, peel away plastic, lightly flour the surface of the dough and gently brush the flour to distribute evenly. Using a greased 4-inch ring cutter (or the ring top of a large Mason jar), cut the dough into muffins.
• Place as many muffins as you can fit along the edges of your cast-iron pan (avoiding the hot center of the pan), puffy-side up. In between batches, refrigerate any muffins you are not cooking.
• Cook undisturbed, for 6 to 8 minutes or until visibly puffed and matte like a very fluffy pancake. Once they are visibly golden on the bottom - you can take a peek - flip them and lightly press so they make full contact with the pan, then continue to cook for an additional 5 to 7 minutes until golden. It helps to give them a gentle 180-degree turn midway through cooking.
• Transfer cooked, hot muffins to a large plastic freezer bag or sealed container and seal to steam a bit to finish. (Steaming helps make the outer crust soft and chewy.)
• Wipe the pan dry and re-grease lightly as before. Continue cooking, transferring finished muffins to the plastic bag.
• When fully cool, about 1 hour, remove muffins and pierce each around the middle with a fork to perforate. When ready to eat, peel muffins apart, toast and slather with butter. Store remaining muffins in a separate bag or resealable container in the refrigerator. These are best enjoyed fresh, but can be refrigerated for 2 to 3 days, then toasted.

GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and refrigerate until ready to use.
• Bake in paper lined muffin tins at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Batter will keep for 2 weeks in refrigerator.

MENDENHALL SOURDOUGH GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cream together the brown sugar and shortening.
• Then add molasses and egg, beating continuously; set aside
• In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients together and blend into hot water.
• Then beat this mixture into creamed mixture.
• As the last step, add the sourdough starter slowly, mixing carefully to maintain a bubbly batter.
• Pour into lightly buttered and floured 8"x8" baking pan and bake at 375 degrees F for about 30 minutes or until done.
• Best served with ice cream or whipped cream while still hot.

HOLIDAY GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease 12 muffin cup/tins.
• In medium bowl, beat the egg, applesauce, oil, molasses and 1/2 cup sugar.
• Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl and add to first mixture.
• Stir in the water, mixing well.
• Fill the muffin cups two-thirds full.
• Lightly sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until done.