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  Before making muffins it is good to know you can make the batter a day or two ahead of time and leave it covered in the fridge until you are ready to bake them. This is so great when you have company coming for a few days. You can wow them by serving home made muffins and not even look like you worked hard preparing them.  Preheat your oven, put the coffee on, drop the batter in the muffin tray, press the timer on your microwave as you put your muffins in the oven and by the time the first cup of coffee is ready the muffins are almost out of the oven.   Basic Muffin Batter   Creaming method   Unsalted Butter                                                ½ cup/125g      Sugar                                                                ¾ cup/150g Vanilla                                                                1 tsp/7.5ml Salt                                                                  ½ tsp/3 g                      Eggs                                    

  Soft Molasses Cookies You have to try this recipe. Especially if you long for a soft molasses cookie you probably had as a child. They are great on their own as a large cookie that fits your whole hand, or made smaller to tease the taste buds. I have put a spicey buttercream in between and turned them into a mini molasses woopie pie. It was so good.  Ingredients: Sugar                                     1 cup Shortening                          ½ cup Butter                                   ½ cup Molasses                             1 cup Egg                                         1 lg Cream these above ingredients Dissolve 2 teaspoons baking soda in ½ cup hot water All purpose Flour              4 ½ cups               Salt                                         1 tsp Cinnamon                           2 tsp Ground Ginger                  1 tsp Ground Cloves                  1 tsp 1 ½ tsp instant coffee Sift dry ingredients Add both dry ingredients and

 Who doesn't like a tea biscuit with a warm bowl of soup or a quick snack with molasses poured all over it. Maybe a side of baked beans to go with that? I remember making tea biscuits for visitors to accompany a lobster boil. It was perfect. We also made a huge batch of apple jelly from apples we brought home from an outing, and decided it was perfect thing to put it on a warm tea bisucit. There was what seemed to be an abondoned farm house down the road from where we lived in a town called Geary, 44 years ago. I was about 5 1/2 months pregnant with our first child. David and I hiked over to the apple tree mid September in that farmyard and filled a book bag with beautiful red apples. I know what ends up in book bags kids. Stollen contraband for one, hehe!! If you are in the mood for memories here is the " Tea Biscuit' sure to bring a few memories of your own.  Tea Biscuits Recipe:   Preheat 425F/218C There are two recipes here. One for cups and one for grams. All purpos