Great Grandma’s Favourite Muffins (in 1967…)

This is what Loveflips would have looked like before the Internet. Wonderful handwritten recipes. We have lots to go through and to pass down. How blessed are we??

The ‘Thank You’ receipt is all the way from Regina… in 1967! I had just started school. Grandma was finally a free woman. She used to go downtown to the ‘Pay – n – Save Drug store. She’d pull up a stool, have her coffee and muffin, a bit of friendly conversation and head over to her friend Lil’s house for tea.. one day the lady at the drug store asked mom where she worked. She thought it must be close because she came every day at the same time. Grandma decided she’d had a bit too much of a good thing and stopped going.. so often, but not before she snagged this recipe!!

 

Is this the green box of bran? 1925 – 1960?? Boy I’ve done a lot looking at bran muffin recipes. They all have liquid in them. This recipe doesn’t. Hmmm.. Mom do you think she was giving you part of the recipe so your muffins would taste like saw dust and you’d come back for theirs?

3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1.75 cups bran?? (equals the 28 ounces in the green box) added it to 1/2 cup hot water, stir to moisten the bran.  I used Rogers Wheat Bran
8 tsp baking powder??? (that seems VERY excessive.. we might rename these to be Sky High Muffins)
4 eggs?? what?
4 tbsp crushed pineapple – I used 1/2 cup chopped pineapple chunks plus liquid it created plus 2 tbsp juice as I thought it looked dry

Vintage muffins call for vintage bowls!! I had fun collecting this set separately at Value Village, and antique store and an antique weekend Fort Macleod put on. I remember mom had these bowls when I was growing up!

This is the consistency of the batter. I used an ice cream scoop for the muffins.

The last batch I put in some raisons and shredded, sweetened coconut!

Happy to say these muffins turned out great and Greg came in from the barn to say the house smelled like a bakery!! YAY!