Bran Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup wheat bran (NOT a cereal)
• 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 large egg, beaten with a fork
• 1/4 cup fancy molasses
• 1/4 cooking oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Makes 12 muffins

Based on a recipe from 'Mostly Muffins' by Jean Pare

If you don't have buttermilk, there are a couple ways to make it. 

You can get a bag of milk and shake it until it separate. The solid is butter, the liquid is buttermilk.

OR you can buy powdered buttermilk (and a bulk barn for example). 8 oz of water + 3 tbsp of powdered buttermilk = 1 cup buttermilk.

OR you can use sour milk.

So, take your buttermilk and pour it into medium bowl, then add the bran. Mix it up.

Add an egg and mix again.

In a separate bowl (sorry I don't have a picture for this):

Add the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix that up.

Make a well in the middle.

Stir molasses, cooking oil and vanilla extract into the bran mixture.

Add the wet ingredients to the well of the dry ingredients. Mix.

Fill a greased muffin tin.

Bake at 375 for roughly 20 minutes (do the toothpick test).

Voila!