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Fruit or Savoury Muffins

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Dawn Hollins

During the Cobargo Folk Festival we hosted the delightful guitar duo from Western Australia, Guy and Damian from Desert Child. I’d made pear muffins for the first time, simply because I had several ripe pears. They were out-of-this-world!

I’ve since made blood plum muffins, banana and pineapple muffins and the latest batch from rhubarb and frozen blackberries, another great combination.

 

So here’s the recipe for Pear Muffins endorsed by Desert Child

Wet mix ingredients:

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Cool Jellies for Summer

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Dawn Hollins

While the following recipes barely qualify as local and seasonal they are ideally suited for hot weather dining. The first is a delicious American-style jellied salad which my mother used to make; the second is a quick and unusual jellied sweet.

Sunlit salad

  • 44 gm tin of pineapple – pieces or crushed
  • a third of a cup of chopped nuts – pecans, cashews or whatever you like
  • 1 packet of lemon or lime jelly crystals
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Banana and green ginger muffins

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For breakfast or morning tea how about using up the over-ripe bananas in the fruit bowl in some muffins with zing!

Wet mix: a quarter cup sugar, half a cup margarine, 4 ripe mashed bananas, 2 eggs, a quarter cup diced crushed green ginger

Cream margarine and sugar, add eggs and remaining wet ingredients or use a food processor.

Dry mix: 2 cups self-raising flour

Fold flour into wet mixture, place in prepared muffin pans and sprinkle over a mix of equal parts of garam masala and sugar. This adds an extra tang.

Bake at 180C for 20-25 minutes. Makes … Read more »

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