Kitchen Witch's Cranberry Muffins

Many thanks to Kitchen Witch for her recipe which I will be putting in a list of things to try for the summer holidays when I am not allotmenteering.

Cranberry Muffins


You need:
8 oz self-raising flour (I used wholemeal)
2 oz dried cranberries (I'm willing to bet that any fruit would work here, really, so if you're feeling lavish, maybe blueberries or something..?)
1 oz butter
2 oz dark brown sugar
1 large tbsp treacle
¼ pint milk
Pinch of bicarbonate of soda
As much nutmeg as modesty will permit

Rub the butter into the flour and heave the sugar and cranberries in. Stick the milk in a pan with the treacle and the bicarb and warm them until the treacle and bicarb do the decent thing and dissolve. Then whack the lot into the bowl with the flour etc. Add the nutmeg and stir like a bastard (this is best done with the 'a' in 'bastard' pronounced as a hard vowel)*.

Spoon the mixture into those natty little paper cake cases - I used about ten - and stick them in the oven for about 20 minutes at 200°c. Remove from oven. Scoff. Groan. Do not exceed ten muffins.