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Healthy Bran Muffin Recipe

3 cups bran or All Bran cereal (not flakes)

1 cup boiling water

1 pint milk

3-4 tablespoons white vinegar

1 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 fresh eggs

2 1/2 cups flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup butter or substitute organic olive oil for butter

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease muffin pans with organic olive oil.

Pour boiling water over bran in a small bowl and set aside. In a separate small bowl, pour white vinegar over milk. Milk should start to curdle.

In a large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Set aside. Cream together butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs until smooth and fluffy. Mix milk mixture with bran mixture. Alternating between flour mixture, bran mixture and butter/ egg mixture combine all three ending with the bran mixture. Do not over mix - the batter should be lumpy and thick. Add in blueberries, cranberries or alpine strawberries if desired in this muffin recipe.

Spoon mixture into large greased muffin pans and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until done. Remaining mixture can be refrigerated up to one week.