Mary Lous Refrigerator Bran Muffins Recipes

REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a muffin pan or line with muffin cups.
• Combine bran flakes and bran cereal in a heat-proof bowl. Cover with boiling water; stir and let sit until softened.
• Beat sugar, shortening, and eggs together in a very large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture. Stir in softened bran; mix until evenly incorporated.
• Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 15 minutes.

REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix all bran cereal, boiling water, and one cup of the buttermilk.
• Let mixture stand.
• Blend sugar with shortening (butter).
• Add eggs and mix.
• Add the flour, soda, salt, another cup of buttermilk, and the dates.
• Blend well and add to bran mixture.
• Cover tightly and refrigerate up to 2 months.
• When ready to use, do NOT stir!
• Dip batter into greased muffin tins.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, if whole wheat, 30.

REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs, buttermilk, oil and sugar. Stir in cereal and raisins. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture. Stir just until all ingredients are moistened. If desired, store batter, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 7 days. To bake, gently stir batter; fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. (All of the batter does not need to be baked at once.)

MOM'S REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• Add the eggs, oil, buttermilk, and pineapple and stir until mixed.
• Mix in the additional raisins.
• Pour into greased muffin tins (don't use liners.).
• Bake at 400 for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown.
• The batter may be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to three months. I think this recipe improves with age as the raisin bran flakes have time to soak up the liquids more.

REFRIGERATOR BUTTERMILK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In very large bowl, combine bran and bran cereal.
• Add boiling water, stir to moisten and let stand 10 minutes. Add buttermilk.
• In another very large bowl, cream shortening with sugars.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• Add bran mixture to creamed mixture, stirring until blended.
• Mix together flour, soda and salt; add raisins.
• Add to bran mixture, stirring until evenly mixed.
• Cover tightly with foil and refrigerate at least 24 hours.
• To make muffins, spoon batter into muffin tins lined with paper baking cups, filling about 3/4 full.
• Bake in 375 oven for 20-25 minutes.
• Make as many muffins as you wish, then return remaining batter to refrigerator.
• Batter will thicken considerably, but don't stir it before spooning it out.
• Recipe makes about 5 dozen muffins; it may be halved successfully.
• Baked muffins freeze well.

MARY LOU'S REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Batter can be made ahead and saved for several weeks in the refrigerator Soak bran and raisins in boiling water and set aside. Cream sugar and oil until smooth. Mix in eggs and buttermilk. Sift togethere flour and soda in separate bowl. Slowly add dry ingredients to moist ingredients. Stir in bran, raisin, water into batter. Fill greased muffin cups 1/2 to 2/3 full. Bake 20 minutes in 400 degree oven.