bran muffin recipe

MargeS

I saw what I think is a great recipe for bran muffins on TV this morning:
(www.odlums.ie)

• 150g / 5oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
• 50g / 2oz Odlums Wheat Bran
• 300ml / 1/2pt Milk
• 50g / 2oz Margarine (room temperature) (Swop with sun flower oil)
• 50g / 2oz Caster Sugar
• 1 Egg (beaten)
• 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 125g / 4oz Shamrock Raisins

I'm on a high protein & calorie diet with low fat. Trying to build a little muscle.
Do you think this could be improved with Brown sugar, skimmed milk and is there anything that could replace the cream flour?

rubadub

Most brown sugar here is still processed white sugar mixed with molasses/treacle. You can get unrefined cane sugar if worried about processing. Honey is sweeter than sugar per gram & per calorie too.

I have not tried it, but I see no reason you cannot use oats in place of flour in most recipies. Wholemeal wheat flour at least should be OK, but I am no baker! somebody might give reason not to.

They get overprocessed white flour, in the processing of this they remove the bran. Then they go and combine the 2 processed things back together again :rolleyes:

This is the same as the sugar, molasses is a by product of refining natural cane sugar. Then they go adding this processed stuff to the refined sugar to emaulate an unrefined substance!

It would be like distilling wine to make brandy and adding it back to the leftover heated wine remains in the still.

MargeS

It really is amazing how much of our food is processed.
Sometimes you'd feel like sitting in a corner and just eat carrots & hope that there weren't too many pesticides used.

corkcomp

TBH the recipe posted above looks far from healthy - the only thing healthy about it is the 50g of wheatbran and the title bran muffins!!! If you look at the measures there is only 50g of bran which is the same as the sugar and margarine quantities - also the while processed flour outnumbers the bran by a fair bit ...

try the following !!!


4oz/100g wholemeal flour •
2 tablespoons baking • powder
1 tablespoon salt •
2oz/50g bran (oat) •
2 tablespoons wheatgerm •
1½oz/35g caster sugar •
1 egg •
½ pint milk •
4 tablespoons vegetable oil•

Holly Fogarty

The salt and baking powder. Is that tablespoons or teaspoons. Tablespoons for a recipe this size seems quite a lot!