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Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. salt
• ¼ tsp. nutmeg, optional
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 6 tbsp. melted butter or vegetable oil
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups fresh or frozen blueberries
• Cinnamon Sugar, optional (3 tbsp. sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon mixed together)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease or line with paper liners 12 muffin cups. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, butter and vanilla. Add wet mixture to dry mixture with a few light strokes, just until dry ingredients are moistened. Do not overmix; batter should not be smooth. Gently fold in the blueberries. Fill muffin cups two-thirds full. Sprinkle tops with Cinnamon Sugar if desired. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, a little longer if using frozen berries. Remove from oven when a toothpick inserted in 1 or 2 of the muffins comes out clean. Cool 2 to 5 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely or serve warm.

Ham And Cheese Casserole

Ingredients:

• 16 slices sandwich bread (crusts removed and frozen)
• 8 slices American cheese
• 8 slices boiled ham
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups milk
• ½ tsp. dry mustard
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 cups crushed cornflakes
• ½ cup butter melted

Butter 8 slices of bread and place in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan butter side up. Put 1 slice of ham and cheese on each slice of bread. Cover with remaining 8 slices of buttered bread, butter side down. Mix eggs, milk and seasonings, and pour over contents in pan and let stand overnight. Before baking, mix melted butter and cornflakes and spread on top. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees F.

Tested in the THASC kitchen. Photo by THASC.

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