Whole Wheat Cracker

 

2 Cups             White Flour

2 Cups              Whole Wheat Flour

1/3 Cup            Brown Sugar

¼ Cup + 2 Tbsp.  Shortening

1 Cup               Butter Milk

1 Tbsp.             Salt

1 tsp.                Soda

 Mix all dry ingredients  cut in shortening add butter milk, mix into a dough and let rest ½  hr. Roll out thin . Bake @  350° For 10 min.

Rhubarb Cream Muffins

This delicious variation on a sweet muffin is filled with a rhubarb flavored cream cheese and made in two separate steps. Prepare the filling, set aside, mix the muffins, divide batter into muffin tin and then insert filling before baking.

 

Rhubarb Cream Cheese Filling

1	Cup	Rhubarb, diced
½	Cup	Sugar
4	Oz.	Cream Cheese, softened
Add sugar to diced rhubarb and cook until soft in the microwave [Using the microwave allows cooking without adding water and a more concentrated pulp.] Set aside to cool. Beat cream cheese until smooth and then add 1/2 cup of the rhubarb pulp mixture.  [Use mostly pulp, leaving  juice when  measuring.] Whip until smooth.  Insert a small star decorating tip into the corner of a sandwich size “Ziplock” plastic bag which has been clipped in the corner. [I use this disposable bag instead of a pastry tube for quick clean up with small amounts of filling. It is also sturdy enough to insert into the muffin mix for complete filling.]

 

Basic Muffin Mix

½	Cup	Butter
½	Cup	Sugar
2		Eggs
2	Cup	Flour
2	tsp.	Baking Powder
½	tsp.	Salt
½	Cup	Milk
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs.  Mix together all dry ingredients.  Add dry ingredients and milk alternately to creamed mixture and mix until blended. Put into papered or well oiled muffin pans. Makes 12-14 muffins.

 

Insert pastry bag tip deep into the center of each muffin, squeezing out approximately 2 tablespoons of filling as the tip is withdrawn. Continue until all are filled and the filling is used up. Bake 20 minutes in preheated oven at 350°.

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