I'm Petra Cox with Mom's Apple Pie company in Occoquan, Virginia. Today, we're going to make muffins. We're going to make blueberry muffins, but you can use this basic batter recipe to make any kind of fruit or nut muffin that you like.
So, first of all we're going to measure and mix the dry ingredients. When you're measuring flour, it's important that the flour is actually loosely sitting in the measuring cup. So, if you just measure out your flour and then cut what's off the top rather than packing it in, you're going to get the appropriate measure.
So, there we are, two, three cups, four cups, five cups, and six cups. So you can just use your knife to scrape off the excess flour off the top and then you have a nice loose cup of flour, which is the standard measure that they're calling for in a recipe.
So, we're also going to do three cups of granulated sugar. There are three cups and we're going to need six teaspoons of baking powder, and the baking powder containers usually have a handy little scraper on top, so that you can take off the excess off the top of the teaspoon. Three, four, five, and six teaspoons. Then we're going to use three teaspoons of salt.
Here we go. Just so that I mix it evenly, I'd just like to use a whisk, because there are so many points at which it's integrating the ingredients. So, this is a lot unlike a cookie or a cake recipe where you cream the butter and the sugar together, because we're going to use the dry ingredients and then the butter will be melted.
So, it's a really easy recipe just to make in a big bowl and not have to use a mixer, or a stand mixer, or anything. So, we've got our dry ingredients, and for our wet ingredients, we're going to have our half dozen eggs that we'll crack into the bowl. We're going to use a medium size bowl for this. I'm going to break out the whisk again just to mix that, got a little bit of eggshell in there.
Into that, I'm going to add the cup-and-a-quarter of whole milk. The reason I am mixing these two together before adding the other wet ingredients, the melted butter, is that if you just add the melted butter to the cracked eggs, the eggs are sort of going to cook before they're even put in the oven. So, we've just got to make sure that it doesn't happen by mixing it with the milk first. That was three sticks of melted better that we've put in there. Just for a little extra flavor, we're going to put three teaspoons of vanilla, real vanilla, not the artificial stuff, nothing beats real vanilla.
So, there we have our dry ingredients, the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, and the wet ingredients, the butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla. We're just going to quickly combine them. Here I'm using a whisk, you can use just a regular old-fashioned wooden spoon as well, but I find that this mixes different areas of the dry and wet ingredients, sort of more quickly and pretty efficiently too.
So, it's just going to incorporate the ingredients without having to do it quite as much work. So, you don't want to over-mix this. It's okay if there is just a few lumps of flour or whatever there maybe in there. All the ingredients need to be moistened and incorporated together.
So, at this point, you have a slightly lumpy batter, but you're ready to put whatever filling you need to in there, and you can use blueberries. We're going to use six cups of blueberries or you can use cranberries and nuts or whatever kind of filling you'd like to use. So, I'm going to go get our blueberries.
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