The weather here is just magnificent -- clear blue sky, a bit on the cool side outside but not too cold.... Soon we'll have that scent of leaf and wood fires in the air. How I love this time of year.
Today I took on another Napoleonic homekeeping project, and tried to bake a triple batch of pumpkin muffins and two loaves of banana bread, all before 11:00. I barely made it with the banana bread but didn't make it with the muffins. A triple batch (actually, I multiplied the recipe by 3.5) is really a lot of muffins, and I only have one muffin pan. I'm doing all this baking because I was in the mood, I wanted to get those bananas out of my freezer, and because I wanted something to feed the contractors (we are having some more work done around the Prussian Green Money Pit over the next few weeks.) Hambet loves pumpkin muffins and so does my husband, so I am going to have to be clever if I am going to have anything left for the contractors.
Oh my, what a lot of effort for that nice baking project. You certainly sound...Industrious...to me. Thanks for your kind note.
/Joyce
Hey Peony,
When you have some extra time (don't you love it when people assume you ever have "extra" time!)could you share your pumpkin muffin recipe? I used to have one but after searching high and low it is not to be found. I thought my mom had it but she said no. ugh. So I would appreciate the help! Thanks!
There's a link in the post itself, and here's an encore:
http://moss-place.stblogs.org/archives/005163.html
I made it with half whole-wheat and half all-purpose flour today, with satisfactory results.
I bake these kind of things in all kinds of containers - washed soup cans, custard cups, pyrex bowls, loaf pans, whatever I can find that will handle the oven. It gets around the 'only one muffin tin' issue.
It is getting to be batch baking time soon. Date nut bread, banana bread, cranberry bread, lemon tea bread - carbo cravings, here we go!
Thanks for the recipe! (I must have totally spaced out to not notice the link!) Company's coming tomorrow so I'll try it out!