Blueberry Muffins à La Alton Brown Good Eats On Food Net Recipes

OVER THE TOP BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375ºF. Coat a standard 12-cup muffin pan and one small oven-safe ramekin with nonstick spray.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a second bowl, whisk together the sugar, oil, eggs, egg yolks, yogurt, and orange zest until smooth.
• Make a crater in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Stir with a rubber spatula until just barely combined. Resist the urge to overmix - there should be some lumps of flour in the batter.
• Fold in the blueberries, mixing just to combine.
• Drop a scant 1 cup of batter in each of the muffin tin's wells. Whatever's leftover can be dropped into the prepared ramekin. The cups should be quite full.
• Sprinkle the muffins with the demerera sugar and bake or until a toothpick inserted into the bottom of a muffin comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Remove from oven and turn out, upside down, onto a clean tea towel to cool completely. This step is key in preventing mushy muffin bottoms, which nobody, and I do mean nobody, likes.
• Serve immediately or store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS à LA ALTON BROWN (GOOD EATS ON FOOD NET

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 380 degrees F.
• Whisk together "wet" ingredients: sugar, oil, egg and yogurt.
• Sift together "dry" ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• Toss blueberries with 1 T. of dry mix.
• Add wet ingredients to the remaining dry ingredients.
• Stir mixture for a count of 10. (Do not overstir.).
• Add 1 cup blueberries to batter and stir 3 times. (Do not overstir.).
• Spray or line muffin tins and add batter (e.g. with #20 scoop).
• Press remaining berries lightly into tops of muffins.
• Put in oven and raise temp to 400.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes; rotate at midpoint.
• Remove and invert onto towel to cool.

ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl combine the powdered milk, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, shortening, and hot water, stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. Let cool. In a separate bowl combine the yeast and 1/8 teaspoon of sugar in 1/3 cup of warm water and rest until yeast has dissolved. Add this to the dry milk mixture. Add the sifted flour and beat thoroughly with wooden spoon. Cover the bowl and let it rest in a warm spot for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the griddle to 300 degrees F.
• Add the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt to mixture and beat thoroughly. Place metal rings onto the griddle and coat lightly with vegetable spray. Using #20 ice cream scoop, place 2 scoops into each ring and cover with a pot lid or cookie sheet and cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Remove the lid and flip rings using tongs. Cover with the lid and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a cooling rack, remove rings and cool. Split with fork and serve.

BEST OF THE BEST BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Position rack in the middle of oven. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Spray the top of a muffin pan with non-stick coating, and line with paper liners.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix together 1 3/4 cup of the flour and baking powder. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk, mixing just until incorporated. Crush 1/4 of the blueberries, and stir into the batter. Mix the rest of the whole blueberries with the remaining 1/4 cup of the flour, and fold into the batter. Scoop into muffin cups. Sprinkle tops lightly with sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown, and tops spring back when lightly tapped.