APPLE MUFFINS
(from “ The Wilson Farm Country Cookbook” by Lynne Wilson)
1 ½ cup flour
2/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ cup butter or marg, softened
1 egg
½ cup milk or cider
1 cup peeled & finely chopped
or coarsely grated apple
Streusel Mixture (optional):
1 Tbsp butter, softened
2 Tbsp flour
2 Tbsp dark brown sugar
¼ tsp cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a muffin tin for 8 large or 12 medium muffins. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a large mixing bowl. Add the butter, egg and milk or cider and cut them in with a pastry blender or two knives until barely mixed – just long enough to moisten the dry ingredients. Stir in the apple. Spoon into the prepared pan. Top with streusel, if desired. Bake for 20-25 minutes. To prepare the streusel topping, mix the butter, flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon with your fingers or a fork until crumbly. Make an indentation in the tops of the unbaked muffins. Place a spoonful of streusel mixture in each. Bake as above.
