Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
1½ cups sugar, divided
2 eggs
1 tsp soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
½ tsp salt
1 cup raisins or dates, chopped
Zest and juice of 1 orange
¾ cup quince jelly
½ pound turkey breast, thinly sliced
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Directions: |
Directions:Preheat oven to 400º. Grease 30 mini-muffin tins. With a mixer, cream together butter and 1 cup sugar until smooth. Add eggs and beat until well blended. Stir soda into the buttermilk. Sift together flour and salt, and then add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir until well mixed. In a food processor, grind together raises (or dates) and orange zest (only the orange part, not the white pith), and add to the batter. Spoon batter into muffin tins, filling a little over ½ full. Bake 12 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch. Place muffin tins on a rack to cook. Brush tops of muffins while still warm with orange juice and sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup of sugar. After 5 minutes, turn muffins out of the pan. Let cool completely before cutting each muffin in half with a serrated knife. Spread inside of muffin with quince jelly. Fill, sandwich fashion, with turkey cut into pieces to fit muffins.
Notes; Raisins instead of dates make for a less sweet muffin. The muffins can be made ahead of time and frozen. Thaw, slice and add jelly and turkey. May heat slightly before serving. Orange muffins good to serve just as muffins without any filling. |
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