TexasMadness
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Pumpkin Muffins
We were a little overwhelmed with our bumper pumpkin crop this year, but we have managed to find new recipes to use them all up!
Pumpkin Muffins (makes 12)
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1/3 cup molasses
1 egg, room temperature
1 cup cooked pumpkin
1 3/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
optional: 1/4 cup raisins or dried cranberries
1. Preheat oven to 400F. Grease muffin cups.
2. With an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugar and molasses. Add the egg and pumpkin and mix well.
3. Sift the dry ingredients and fold into the pumpkin mixture - just enough to combine. Fold in the dried fruit if using.
4. Spoon the batter into the muffin cups.
5. Bake until tops spring back when touched lightly, 12-15 minutes (mine always take about 16).
They are really delicious! We've made a dozen every weekend for a few weeks and they just don't seem to last!
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12/5/2009, 2:38 am
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heritage ranch
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Re: Pumpkin Muffins
cool,
i plan on doing almost 2 acres of pumpkins next year. i am sure some will make it to the table but most are for the pigs. they sure scarffed them up this year
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12/5/2009, 3:03 am
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Re: Pumpkin Muffins
I was just reading about feeding pumpkins to pigs (I saw some potbellies for sale on craigslist and it has me all excited to get pigs again...). It reminded me of pigs eating the leftover scrap from making baby carrots. Do you know about this? It's weird.
Baby carrots - the bagged kind in the grocery store, are NOT small or young carrots. They are regular sized carrots that are turned down on a carrot lathe and chopped into little pieces to make us feel like we are eating something tender and young.
That process leaves you with a ton of carrot leftovers. Perfectly good food, but not in a form that anyone wants. So the guy who invented the baby carrot sold the stuff to pig farmers. They were happy to have such a cheap source of feed!
Oops...too much beta carotene can actually turn the pig's fat orange!!! So then the farmers had a whole bunch of really unappetizing looking meat!
I wonder what "too much" actually is? I bet it's a TON of it! So be careful with too much pumpkin!
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12/5/2009, 8:42 pm
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Re: Pumpkin Muffins
yeah, i dont like to let any one think be more than about 25% of the diet. i want them to be healthy from a diverse diet. but if i can grow the pumkins then i can cut back on the grain. i also figure it is more efficient $ wise to grow the food, rather then grow something to sell and then have to buy the food. to many hands in the pot that way
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12/5/2009, 11:56 pm
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Re: Pumpkin Muffins
Interesting!
I think pigs are great to keep if they are not fed on soy from Brazil or something. If they do what they were used to for ages - and that's eating scraps and digging through fields, turning waste into food, they are perfect members of a farm.
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12/6/2009, 11:21 am
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