astray recipes: Muffins ( coffee cake )

Categories: Muffins
Yield: 1 dozen

Measure	Ingredient
½ cup	Sugar, brown; firmly packed
½ cup	Walnuts; chopped
2 tablespoons	Flour, all-purpose
2 teaspoons	Cinnamon, ground
2 tablespoons	Butter (or marg.); melted
1½ cup	Flour, all-purpose
½ cup	Sugar
2 teaspoons	Baking powder
½ teaspoon	Salt
¼ cup	Shortening
1	Egg; beaten
½ cup	Milk

Combine brown sugar, walnuts, 2 tablespoons flour, cinnamon, and butter; set aside.

Sift dry ingredients into bowl; cut into shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine egg and milk; add to flour mixture, and stir just unitl moistened.

Grease muffin pans; spoon in a small amount of batter, and top with a layer of nut mixture. Repeat layers, filling each muffin cup ⅔ full. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until done.

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, May 1974.

Typos by Nancy Coleman.

muffins ( coffee cake )