Easy Blueberry muffins!
Today’s Easy Blueberry Muffins recipe is adapted from a food blog called Inspired Taste. Emily and a group of children recently conducted a search for recipes for this term’s menu. The children discovered that there are a great many food and recipe websites and YouTube videos with many variations of recipes they were looking for.
Our question to you is, what are your preferred sources for recipes?
Many of us older kids still have cookbooks on our bookshelves at home. This author has always been fond of Jamie Oliver’s books and television productions, particularly his earlier work. The Jamie Oliver website and empire is quite impressive now!
The photos in the gallery show children working together and taking turns adding and mixing ingredients. They supported each other with the process by holding the mixing bowel in place and tidying up after they had finished.
Jack, Kman, Hannah, Jackson, Mia, and Freddie learnt how to fold ingredients. Thanks to bon appétit magazine online, the term fold simply means:
Folding is a way of mixing two ingredients with different densities to preserve the lightness and structure of the mixture. Generally, one of the ingredients is light and airy, like whipped egg whites, and the ingredient it’s being folded into is heavier and denser, like melted chocolate.
The recipe instructs you to fold ingredients and being such a curious term, Natalie asked the group if they knew what it means. She quizzed them on what they thought would happen if they just mixed blueberries into the mixture. Freddie had a notion that the blueberries would go mushy and turn the mixture blue! Two of our Year 6 students who participate in the school’s Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Programme knew how to fold and were able to demonstrate and instruct the others.
Now Bon Appétit magazine is a well known publication, but what does bon appétit mean? Isn’t that a French word? Well, oui, it is! It means, good appetite: enjoy your meal! We’ll add both fold and bon appétit to our OSHC Foodies What Does This Mean? Handbook, coming soon!
One last thing to mention before getting back to the kitchen, two of our older and more experienced kitchen hands recommended cleaning up the bowl, spoons and whisk, by licking them clean.. We can’t recommend the practice at OSHC or at home, raw egg and salmonella, you know? But it is a cheeky idea that I’ve had before! Perhaps there’s another way. Perhaps a few chocolate chips could spill onto the counter? Or a dollop of cream could just accidentally land on a spoon before you clumsily knock a light dusting of cocoa across it?
Easy Blueberry Muffins
1 1/2 cups of flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/3 cup of olive oil
1 large egg
1/3 to 1/2 cup of milk (dairy or non-dairy are okay!)
1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
A generous cup or so of fresh blueberries
Pre heat the oven to 200ºC
Line a muffin tray with 8-10 patty pans, or whatever they’re called now!
Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl
In another mixing bowl whisk the oil, egg, milk, and vanilla extract
Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and combine gently with a fork. Don’t over mix!
Fold in the blueberries
*The mixture should be thick, but not dry. Add milk or flour to find a good consistency
Divide the batter between 8 and ten patty pans
Bake muffins for between 15 and 20 minutes, or until the tops are no longer wet and a toothpick can be poked in and come out dry
Transfer the muffins to a cooling rack and let them cool before you tuck in!
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