Great Recipe Experiment 2008 #13

[baronessekat]

This morning I experimented on my friends again. Once more I delved into the pamphlets from my mom's days working for Iroquois Gas Corporation and tried:



2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
6 slices of bacon, cooked, crumbled
1 egg slightly beaten
1 c milk
3 Tbsp bacon drippings.

Sift dry ingredients together. Stir in bacon that has been fried on griddle. Mix egg, milk and bacon drippings together and ad to dry ingredients; stir only until mixture is dampened. Spoon into greased muffin pans, filling 2/3 full. Bake at 425ºF for 20 minutes.

The result was not muffins by any definition I know of. I would actually call them drop biscuits and that's exactly what Dicea said too.

General consensus was that it needed more bacon bits in them and maybe a bit less sugar.

I was disappointed because I was looking forward to actual muffins for breakfast rather than biscuits. but biscuits are perfectly good breakfast foods too.

The Duchezz and Dicea discussed how they would make great dumplings in a bean soup and griddle cakes (not pancakes).

We also all agreed that the rating is a strong 3 out of 5. I was told not to abandon the recipe and to continue to play with it to find a way to make them what I was looking for or how to use the recipe for new things (like the dumplings and such).

Comments

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

Ekat, I have a fabulous recipe for sausage cheese muffins that are easy to make and freeze well. Let me know if you want it and I'll email you. (It may take me a few days to find it again. I was making it often before surgery but then it got filed.)

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

yes please!!!

[damedini.livejournal.com]

My personal love bread for brekkie is savory biscuits. I prepare biscuit dough, then knead in sauteed onions, shredded cheese and either chopped sausage (I like smoked) or crumbled bacon. I like to make a batch and take them anywhere cooking is a bother (camping events, day events with a long drive, etc).