I had a hankering to make some pear and ginger muffins for brunch this
morning, and thought they might be good using an oatmeal and buttermilk
recipe. I looked up a an oatmeal buttermilk recipe online and got to
work. I figured all I would have to do is to add some chopped up some of
my candied ginger and some chunks of canned pears.

Modification seemed simple enough, since there was buttermilk I didn't
have to worry about balancing with baking soda, as I usually do with
fruit added. I added a teaspoon of dried ginger powder to the
ingredients. The oatmeal had been soaked in the buttermilk for about an
hour.

I mixed everything together, spooned the batter into the muffin pans and
stuck it int he oven for 17 minutes. They looked great when I checked,
which was when there was still about 5 minutes to go. That was when I
realized I had forgotten the pears.


At first I was disappointed, but then I tried one. Wow. They are
delicious and have a great texture. I can't imagine then being much
better with pears in. We have a small jar of pear jam. I will try that
on the muffins.

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:09:09 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> I had a hankering to make some pear and ginger muffins for brunch this
> morning, and thought they might be good using an oatmeal and buttermilk
> recipe. I looked up a an oatmeal buttermilk recipe online and got to
> work. I figured all I would have to do is to add some chopped up some of
> my candied ginger and some chunks of canned pears.
>
> Modification seemed simple enough, since there was buttermilk I didn't
> have to worry about balancing with baking soda, as I usually do with
> fruit added. I added a teaspoon of dried ginger powder to the
> ingredients. The oatmeal had been soaked in the buttermilk for about an
> hour.
>
> I mixed everything together, spooned the batter into the muffin pans and
> stuck it int he oven for 17 minutes. They looked great when I checked,
> which was when there was still about 5 minutes to go. That was when I
> realized I had forgotten the pears.
>
>
> At first I was disappointed, but then I tried one. Wow. They are
> delicious and have a great texture. I can't imagine then being much
> better with pears in. We have a small jar of pear jam. I will try that
> on the muffins.

I think that's a great idea. Not sure if I'd like chunks of pear in
my muffin, but it would be fine as a jam... especially if the muffin
was flavored with ginger. Feel free to email the leftovers to me!

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