Quick Baking Muffin Ideas for Personal Chefs by Ruth Paget
When I was a teenager in Detroit (Michigan), I helped my divorced mom who worked 40+ hours a week as a printer at the Detroit Free Press newspaper prepare meals for the upcoming school week.
I baked muffins (quick breads and loaves made into muffins) and made fruit salads that I would eat with slices of cheddar or Swiss cheese and two pots of Canadian Red Rose tea. (Red Rose tea is strong and bitter – just the way I like it.)
The cookbooks I baked from in Detroit were usually Betty Crocker’s (corporate written and tested for no-surprise results).
I recently purchased Betty Crocker’s Big Book of Bread ($1.99 on Amazon Kindle) to have recipes for my favorite quick breads at my fingertips again.
The Betty Crocker Big Book of Bread writes that quick breads are leavened (made to rise when baking) by using baking powder. Quick breads can be baked as soon as they are mixed unlike yeast breads as well. Quick breads should no be over mixed or they will turn out tough and poorly risen according to Betty Crocker. (More details can be found in the book.)
I ate savory and slightly sweet muffins. I made banana bread loaves into muffins. I reduced sugar by 1/2 to 1/3.
Some of the muffins that I liked are still what I consider easy to prepare and might appeal to personal chefs as well.
These recipes include:
-bean muffins
-pumpkin muffins (made with pumpkin purée)
-buttermilk muffins
-savory corn bread muffins
-banana bread
-sour-cream cranberry muffins
-zucchini bread muffins
-carrot bread muffins
-oatmeal muffins (I added rehydrated raisins to mine.)
-Irish yogurt bread muffins
What I liked about these quick breads is that they really are quick; it takes about 35 minutes to bake most of them with 15 minutes of time to prepare.
Busy working people could probably make these quick bread muffins while doing laundry. (This is what I did in high school.)
Personal chefs can easily incorporate a variety of muffins into their recipe portfolio that have a good profit margin.
Happy Baking!
By Ruth Paget
-author Eating Soup with Chopsticks, Marrying France, and Europe’s Lessons written during overseas duty in Germany + 5 other Kindle books
-developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games + 8 Classical Western Civilization War Games
-developer of food and beverage knowledge games
-creator of online exhibits about San Miguel Arcangel Mission, French baguette making, and the Carmel Valley History Museum
-creator of French travel and culture games
-writer of 2000+ Central Coast California lifestyle games
-family genealogist
-developer of 9 music theory games
