Honey Kissed Peach (or Blueberry) Muffins

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The frost peaches are inwards too nosotros guide maintain sure as shooting picked our share. 130 pounds that is! I guide maintain spent the weekend pitting, cutting, freezing, too dehydrating these sweet, juicy lilliputian morsels of summertime nutrition. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 agency to recall summer, swallow local, trim our carbon footprint? Or exactly savor fresh!

We guide maintain also been picking blueberries, blackberries, Italian plums, apples, pears, too reddish plums. Over this past times weekend I stayed upwards into the wee hours of the morning time processing it all too making jam. Spiced peach jam, cherry-peach jam, blueberry-honey jam, too blueberry-apple-lemon jam. You tin build a sugar-free jam past times using Pomona's pectin. So far I guide maintain used grape juice concentrate too dearest to sweeten my jams. I also made ane amongst saccharide exactly to run into what the divergence was inwards sense of savor too texture.

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But what virtually vegetables you lot say? Well, the cabbage inwards our garden is produce to last harvested too shortly I volition last making raw sauerkraut. Over the weekend I made a large batch of raw, lacto-fermented pickles.

The muffins, delight the recipe?

The other hateful solar daytime every bit I was browsing Melissa's Gluten Free for Good blog, I noticed a honey sweetened peach muffin that beckoned me to build it. Since I don't purpose mixes I idea I amend come upwards up amongst my ain recipe. Three tries subsequently I offering you lot a recipe that your gluten-eating friends volition savor too! You see, since I had thence many muffins, I gave them to the neighbors to taste-test. The verdict was in: all folks loved them, gluten-free or not!

Since Melissa's recipe used eggs I idea I would endeavor it out that agency too. If you lot demand an egg-free muffin recipe you lot tin purpose my vegan Rhubarb Muffin recipe and only supervene upon the rhubarb for peaches or blueberries (or whatever other summertime fruit for that matter...like blackberries). 

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Honey Kissed Peach (or Blueberry) Muffins

These gluten, dairy-free beauties are packed amongst nutrition too flavor! I guide maintain added a whole loving cup of almond repast flour which raises the poly peptide too overall nutritional value. I purpose Bob's Red Mill build for the almond repast flour. I also purpose sorghum flour which bakes upwards squeamish too light. I purpose unsweetened hemp milk for the milk, though I am certain moo-cow or caprine animal milk would go every bit well. I used the total 2 cups of berries inwards all of my batches which worked well, though if your are curt on fruit, the lesser amount volition go every bit well. For this item recipe, I guide maintain works life that using newspaper muffin cups works good for taking the hot muffins out of the pan.

Dry Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sorghum flour
1 loving cup almond repast flour (not blanched almond flour)
1/2 loving cup tapioca flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon body of body of water salt
1/2 teaspoon dry reason nutmeg

Wet Ingredients:
2 large organic eggs
1/2 loving cup honey
1/2 loving cup milk (non-dairy)
1/3 loving cup melted virgin kokosnoot oil
1/4 loving cup unsweetened applesauce
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond flavoring
1 to 2 cups diced peaches or blueberries

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan amongst newspaper liners.

Whisk together the dry out ingredients inwards a large bowl.

In a kind bowl or 4-cup drinking glass measure, add together the eggs. Whisk. Then add together the remaining moisture ingredients. Whisk well.

Pour the moisture ingredients into the dry out too whisk together well. Fold inwards the fruit. Use a 1/3 loving cup stair out to pour batter into muffin cups. Fill to the top!

Bake for virtually 25 minutes. Remove muffins from pan too permit cool on a wire rack. They volition concord together good after they are cooled, but they are even thence slap-up fresh out of the oven! Enjoy!


Some Helpful Tips for Picking Fruit:

Every twelvemonth our household unit of measurement picks pounds too pounds of fruit. The play a trick on is having the fourth dimension to bargain amongst it all ane time it ripens. It may last go now, but inwards the dead of wintertime you lot volition last relaxing too enjoying a freshly baked scone spread amongst your real ain homemade jam.

- Don't last shy, instruct upwards to your neighbor's trouble solid too inquire to selection fruit. Most folks are happy to guide maintain the help, otherwise most of it volition halt upwards on the dry reason rotting. Other places to expect are vacant lots, houses for sale or for rent, too houses where college students live. There is enough of fruit to instruct around! But delight recall to ever ask before you lot pick!

- Keep empty boxes inwards your automobile exactly inwards illustration you lot spot a tree needing picking on your travels virtually town. Small buckets works good for berries.

- Make certain you lot store your fruit inwards large apartment boxes, ane or ii layers deep, after you lot selection it. Otherwise the bottom fruit volition instruct crushed too outset to rot, perhaps spoiling the whole box. I normally take away the real ripe fruit to swallow correct away too and thence transfer the fruit into additional boxes. You tin selection upwards empty fruit boxes from your local wellness nutrient shop if demand be.

- It helps to guide maintain an extra refrigerator and/or freezer inwards your garage. I lay a bunch of fruit inwards the fridge earlier it ripens to last able to savor for weeks. Just accept a lilliputian out at a fourth dimension too permit it ripen on your kitchen counter.

- For peaches, I only cutting them inwards half, take away the pit, too freeze them inwards layers inwards large containers. They are slap-up inwards dark-green smoothies throughout the year. To dehydrate, I peel, pit, too cutting into thick slices. After they are done I shop them inwards large drinking glass jars inwards the pantry.

- For blueberries, I pour roughly into a large Pyrex bowl too produce total it amongst water. All of the stems too leaves, too other gunk volition float to the top. You tin exactly pour off this materials too give them roughly other rinse. Shake off the H2O too identify into large containers to freeze.

- For blackberries, nosotros exactly freeze them every bit they are, no rinsing.

- For Italian Plums, I cutting them inwards half, pit them, too freeze them inwards large containers. For dehydrating I cutting them inwards one-half or quarters, pit them, too dehydrate. Store inwards drinking glass jars inwards your pantry when done.

- For apples, exactly build applesauce.....or apple tree plum sauce!

- We similar to purpose the pears inwards dark-green smoothies too also freeze them. Frozen, they build a slap-up add-on to your smoothies when out of season.

- Giveaway lilliputian boxes of fruit to your friends! This is ever fun, peculiarly when you lot guide maintain iv or to a greater extent than dissimilar types of fruit to add together to the box.


Do you lot guide maintain whatever ways to save the harvest? Traditions? Recipes? I'd love to hear. :)



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