{"id":3516,"date":"2022-01-31T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2022-02-28T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T02:54:14","slug":"bread-of-the-month-mixing-lemon-lavender-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"Bread of the Month: Mixing lemon, lavender, blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Occasionally, I stumble across a recipe that reminds me of the versatility and homey comfort of muffins. I don\u2019t make them a lot, and I should, particularly when I find an easy, flavorful version like the Lemony Yogurt Muffins from \u201cBaking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple,\u201d (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2021) by Dorie Greenspan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greenspan, a beloved baking maven, creates alluring recipes that have very specific but simply reassuring directions, like ones you would give a friend, that advise on how a dough should look, etc., so that you know you are on the right track. This extra effort, along with a vast array of delicious recipes showcasing her expertise and talent, make it understandable why Greenspan is so popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I]\u2019m not one to alter or enhance a recipe until I\u2019ve tried it, but for these lemony muffins, flavored with lemon zest and made moist with yogurt, it was a recommended addition to bring fresh blueberries into the mix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] also had lavender on the brain. Something herb-y and floral like that might add an interesting flavor dimension to the muffin. I decided to make a lemon lavender sugar for the top of the muffins, using a mix of large granule sanding sugar and regular granulated sugar, all blended (using fingers) with lemon zest and some chopped dried lavender. I also repeated this process with the sugar in the muffin dough. The sugar mixture is added to the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[A] good amount of yogurt (3\/4 cup) is used for this recipe. I chose a nice plain thick Greek yogurt, which is brought up to room temperature and whisked with two large eggs and a stick of cooled melted butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]he wet ingredients are blended into the dry. Here, Greenspan\u2019s advice of using a light hand and not to worry if there are a \u201cfew patches\u201d of dry in the blending, was that needed reassurance that one is doing the mixing right to keep the muffins light and tender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]he plump blueberries are added next, again, using a light hand to avoid over-mixing and also not crushing the fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]his very thick dough filled up the muffin pan cavity amply, with plenty of blueberries showing for the effort (isn\u2019t disappointing when you can\u2019t see them? Not the case here.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] sprinkled some of the crunchy lemon-lavender sugar over the top of each muffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[T]hese beautiful muffins were a sight to behold after baking\u2026plump with perfectly rounded tops, golden, blueberries bursting, sugar sparkling\u2026I could stare at them all day, but I wanted to eat one too much to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] bit into one warm, with a bit of butter and a little bit of lemon curd (another Greenspan suggestion). They were so tender and moist, the blueberries so very juicy, the light flavors of lemon and even more subtle, lavender, adding a soft note. And the crunch of that sugar topping\u2026it was a good idea I brought to the table, to a good recipe that was just as welcoming as it could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can find the recipe for Lemony Yogurt Muffins here: https:\/\/mariashriver.com\/the-sunday-paper-dinner-table-lemony-yogurt-muffins-dorie-greenspan\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I stumble across a recipe that reminds me of the versatility and homey comfort of muffins. I don\u2019t make them a lot, and I should, particularly when I find an easy, flavorful version like the Lemony Yogurt Muffins from \u201cBaking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple,\u201d (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,12,1],"tags":[125,502,152,168,501,146,503],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookshelf","category-oantry","category-recipe-box","category-uncategorized","tag-blueberries","tag-blueberry-muffins","tag-lavender","tag-lemon","tag-lemon-muffins","tag-muffins","tag-quick-breads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}