just hit a home run!

[magical thyme]

Tried baking bread this afternoon for the first time in many, many years. It was a bust, but a learning experience. I think I'll be able to use the results as part of a desert. Otherwise, I'll just chuck'em...no big deal, I only mixed a tiny batch.

Then this evening, I went for morning glory muffins. I had them for the first time at a gluten-free bread class that I took back in September. The teacher wouldn't share her recipe -- it took her a long time to develop and she sells bread and baked goods to many of the health food stores around here. We did note that it was heavy on the molasses.

I don't need to go gluten-free, but am just looking at expanding the variety in my diet.

So with my memory of her muffins in mind, I looked up numerous gluten-free morning glory muffins online, including the original, and picked out one that looked promising (and for which I have the ingredients on hand). I mixed from scratch my own "all purpose flour" of millet & buckwheat flour plus corn starch, replaced a portion of the sugar with molasses and used brown sugar for the balance, modified slightly a couple ingredients (doubled the vanilla, you simply can't use too much vanilla, lol)...and went for it.

Oh, oh, oh....thank goodness I made a point of writing down the recipe. It's a winner!!!!!!!

Oh, forgot to mention, did all this while watching "Shakespeare in Love"

Happy thanksgiving Loungers!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That's wonderful, my dear magical thyme!

Good for you! How lucky you wrote it down.

Enjoy your new recipe!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

[magical thyme]

4. Usually, on the rare occasion that I get creative in the kitchen

and accidentally make something really delicious...I'm never again able to duplicate a "dribble of this, a dash of that," and so on.

I made a point of carefully writing everything out. Too save on ingredients, I even wrote out tablespoon to cup conversions so I can make "micro-batches" of everything.

My recipe worked out to 6 muffins, exactly, lol. That's the size of my muffin tin, and is all my little convection oven holds

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. Congratulations!!!!

And I'm envious. My history of bread-making is less than stellar.

My first effort (using a recipe, of course) was as a young bride, living with my USAF husband in Germany. A French loaf -- looked fairly easy and I followed directions exactly. The results could have been used as a baseball bat. Even the landlady's chickens refused to eat it.

Later efforts were just as awful until I finally decided to buy a bread machine. No good results with that either.

So I gave up. I admire someone like you who can deconstruct a muffin and reconstruct a successful version. Again, congratulations. You should be proud of yourself!

[magical thyme]

3. your description of your bread seems familiar...

I suspect the taste of my "bread" is not unlike that of a baseball bat, as well. I'm not going to taste a bat to confirm, though!