3 cups bran flakes, soaked in 1 cup boiling water
1 cup honey or blackstrap molasses
or ½ Cup of each
(best with ½ Cup blackstrap molasses, ½ Cup maple sugar)*
2 cups buttermilk**
2 eggs (optional)
½ cup sunflower or
safflower oil
3 cups whole-wheat flour
or 1 ½ cups
unbleached white flour and 1 ½ cups whole-wheat pastry flour for a lighter
muffin
2 ½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon sea salt (optional)
1 cup presoaked raisins (optional)***
Soak bran in boiling water.
Combine honey, buttermilk, eggs, and oil.
Add to bran.
Combine flour and soda.
Mix well.
Add to bran mixture.
Stir in presoaked raisins.
Bake 25 minutes at 350°.
These muffins are delicious served hot with butter, and they
freeze beau- tifully. Yields }8 bran muffins.
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