Yield: 12 servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
1½ cup | Flour |
1¾ teaspoon | Baking powder |
½ teaspoon | Salt |
¼ teaspoon | Allspice |
¼ teaspoon | Nutmeg |
½ cup | Sugar |
⅓ cup | Margarine |
1 \N | Egg, slightly beaten |
¼ cup | Milk |
10 ounces | Mandarin orange tin, drained |
\N \N | TOPPING (optional) |
¼ cup | Melted butter |
¼ cup | Sugar |
½ teaspoon | Cinnamon |
Note: tin of broken segments is less expensive than whole segments.
About a cup of fresh orange pieces could be used.
Sift flour with other dry ingredients. Cut in Margarine. Combine egg and milk, and add all at once to dry ingredients -- mix only until moistened.
Fold in orange pieces and break them up more if batter seems to dry at first. Fill greased muffin tins ¾ full.
Bake at 350F for 20 to 25 minutes.
Remove from muffin tins while still warm. Dip tops in melted butter and sugar-cinnamon mixture. Makes 12 large muffins.