Honey Muffins

Jeanette is still going strong baking and making delicious goodness using local ingredients, and at the office we are loving this!  We are getting our daily bread... or cupcakes, to have with our first coffee before we kick off with work!

This fine Monday morning we were treated to some Honey Muffins!  Honey is one of the most precious ingredients in a kitchen and for good reason. In Jeanette's words, honey is the only natural food that has all the ingredients to support life, including water.  Not solely used in food, honey has also been used as a natural remedy to treat a variety of ailments.

Here is Nina, Jeanette's cat, eyeing the muffins!!

Its prestigiousness also comes from the fact that it is a very limited product.  Pure raw honey availability depends on a healthy hive of bees foraging on the flora in their surroundings.  This year's biggest issue for our local farmers has been the lack of rainfall which of course affects the amount and variety of flora and therefore impacts on the amount of honey produced by the bees!

So whilst we pray and hope for more rainfall so as to be able to produce more pure local honey, below is the Honey Muffin recipe Jeanette has used thanks to www.simplefood365.com.  

 HONEY MUFFINS

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PREP TIME  15 mins

COOK TIME 18 mins

TOTAL TIME 33 mins

Author: Tara Kimball

Recipe type: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Serves: 12 Muffins

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• ⅓ cup honey
• 1 large egg

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
3. Mix the milk, vanilla, butter, honey and egg in a smaller bowl until well blended.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, mixing just until everything is combined.
5. Divide the batter into a sprayed or lined muffin pan so that each cup is ⅔ full.
6. Bake for 18 minutes, then remove to a rack for 10 minutes.

More interesting information about pure honey can be found in two other Merill Local Product blogs: Let's Talk About Honey, Honey!  Part 1 & Part 2.

Have a great week!!

Steph

Did you know...

...that there are different types of honey depending on the season it is harvesting in, because of the different flora available to the bees at the time?  Different season, different colour! At our speciality store we are currently stocked up on Autumn flora honey which is the darker shade and also some Thyme & Clover honey!  All very limited!!  Should you be interested contact us now - info@merill.com.mt or call us on 21411388.

Some of the honey can also be tasted during our weekly Olive Grove experiences happening every Sunday! Click here for more information.