One of the things about being in a CSA I that it is either feast or famine. Case in point- 5 lbs of cherries. What to do with said cherries? Make a first attempt at a Jelly.
One of the problems with cherries are the pits. Our juicer (aka my shortcut machine) doesn’t deal with the pits very well. Even if it claims it does, it doesn’t.
So I present some in progress shots- aka depitting of doom.
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Recipe card friendly apple rhubarb Muffin recipe
The recipe:
Wet:
1 egg
¾ cup milk
¼ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup white sugar
2-3 tablespoons brown sugar
¼ cup sugar in the raw (Sugar In The Raw Turbinado Sugar, 6-Pound
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups apples, coarsely grated
Dry:
½ cup ground quick oats (I used a coffee grinder)
1 cup white flour
½ cup white wheat flour (I use the Wegmans brand or King Arthur Flour, Og, White Whl Wheat
2 tsp baking powder (Rumford Aluminum Free Baking Powder, 8.1-Ounce Canisters – Pack of 2
1 ½ tsp cinnamon (Ground Saigon Cinnamon
3 tbsp milled flax seed (Hodgson Mill, Flax Seed Milled Gf, 12 OZ
2 tbsp wheat bran (Bob’s Red Mill Wheat Bran, 20 oz
pinch salt
1 ½ cups rhubarb, diced
preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line/grease 10-12 muffin cups.
Combine all wet ingredients. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in rhubarb. Pour wet ingredients into dry and blend until flour mixture is just moistened.
Fill muffin cups. Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown and tester comes out clean.
Cries. So much rhubarb & only the second week of the CSA. About to start dehydrating it.
The muffins before baking. Seriously why does all the fruit type baked goods look like vomit prior to cooking?