Oatmeal Muffins

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup melted shortening or 1/2 cup salad oil
• 1 egg, room temperature and beaten
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

Recipe

• 1 muffin tins, greased--about 12 medium cups.
• 2 preheat oven to 350 f.
• 3 in a large bowl combine rolled oats and buttermilk.
• 4 allow the oats to soak for 30 minutes or longer.
• 5 (sometimes i will let them go overnight.) on a length of wax paper sift the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
• 6 stir the shortening and beaten egg into the oatmeal mixture.
• 7 blend in dry ingredients and mix only long enough to moisten.
• 8 drop in brown sugar.
• 9 stir but don't beat.
• 10 ideally, the brown sugar should remain suspended in the batter in small pea-size chunks.
• 11 spoon batter into the muffin tins.
• 12 bake in the oven until brown.
• 13 remove muffins from the oven.
• 14 gently loosen with knife around muffin and turn from muffin tins and serve while they are hot.
• 15 they taste good cold.
• 16 the complete book of bread.