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cshenk

Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> "Ranee at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >,
> > (Judy Haffner) wrote:
> >
> > > I have several very ripe bananas on hand, and was going to freeze
> > > them to use for baking in the future, but every Sunday our family
> > > comes over, so always have something baked up, and muffins seem
> > > to always go over. I make banana bread often, but was wondering
> > > if anyone would care to share a recipe for muffins?
> >
> > I have the easiest and tastiest recipe for banana muffins ever:
> >
> > 4 ripe bananas
> > 1/3 cup honey
> > 1 stick unsalted butter
> > 1 egg
> > 1 3/4 cup self rising flour (or the equivalent amount of flour with
> > baking powder and salt)
> >
> > Preheat the oven to 350 F and grease 12 muffin cups.
> >
> > Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove over low to medium heat.
> > Cook, stirring occasionally, until milk solids turn brown.
> >
> > In a bowl, mash bananas with the honey. Set aside.
> >
> > When butter is ready, add 1 cup of the banana mixture to the pot
> > and cook until golden. Add remaining banana mixture and whisk in
> > egg and then the flour.
> >
> > Fill muffin cups about 2/3 of the way and bake for 25 minutes.
> > Cool 5 minutes in the pan, then turn out and cool the rest of the
> > way.
>
> Sounds good, but I need to know the weight of the butter please?

That would be 4 oz or 1/4 lb. A lot of butter to me for even 12
muffins but it probably is fairly tastey.

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