It is super simple. Betty Crocker. (MasterCook for those of you I sold on that software, hee.) It's a kid friendly recipe, which is why it says the bit about adult help at the end. I imagine most of you can manage this without adult help. I love this recipe because it's pretty much just stuff I always have around. It says it results in 12 muffins, but my tins are a little big so I only get 6 out of this recipe.

Cinnamon Sugar Muffins

Shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine or butter (1 stick)

1. Heat oven to 350º.
2. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups with shortening
3. Beat in medium bowl with fork:
  1/2 cup sugar
  1/2 cup milk
  1/3 cup vegetable oil
  1 large egg
4. Stir into milk mixture just until all the flour is wet (do not stir too much-batter will be lumpy):
  1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
5. Spoon batter into muffin cups until 2/3 full. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
6. While muffins are baking, mix in small bowl, then set aside:
  1/2 cup sugar
  1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
7. Melt in saucepan over low heat, then remove from heat:
  1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine or butter
8. Adult help: Immediately remove muffins from pan. Roll hot muffins in the melted margarine, then in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Serve hot.

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Regarding flour: if a recipe does not specify self-rising flour, but that's all you have, would tragedy occur if you substituted self-rising flour for unspecified (but what I assume is meant to be NON-self-rising) flour?

Nope, but you should skimp on or omit entirely the ingredient(s) intended to make the thing rise (i.e. baking soda or powder.) I *think* self-rising flour has baking powder in.

ION if I posted, "Just eat a muffin, whitey!" in Ta-Nehisi Coates' comments thread, nobody would get it. [link]

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Self-rising flour has baking powder and salt added, so you'll want to cut back on both of those.

Here's a recipe for self-rising flour, so I suppose you could reverse engineer that to figure out how much baking powder to leave out.

ION if I posted, "Just eat a muffin, whitey!" in Ta-Nehisi Coates' comments thread, nobody would get it. [link]

Heh.

Flea, you could post it with a link to the BRQG.

I did a day's work! And I have so much to do this week...I'm even thinking of going in early tomorrow. After I surf the web for document templates tonight.

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