OATMEAL MUFFINS

Wendell & Mary Fox

OATMEAL MUFFINS

Soak 1 cup rolled oats in 1 cup buttermilk (or sour milk) for 1 hour. Heat oven to 400° F. Mix 1/3 cup soft shortening (part butter), 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1 egg, thoroughly. Blend: 1 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp salt. Stir into shortening mixture alternately with oats and buttermilk. Fill greased muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake 20 – 25 minutes.

Makes 12

I found this recipe on an oatmeal box. Probably thirty years ago. I don’t remember what company. It wasn’t Quakers. In the last year (2004) I was looking in a box that has my mom’s (Rannie Burns) recipes in. I found the same recipe hand written. She had to have had it back in the 1920’s.