Aunt Cheryl’s Residence EC Muffins

Some recipes are humble but so reassuring that they needn’t change. They’re stored in your pocket, prepared for the second you crave consolation and ease. That is a type of recipes.

“My Aunt Cheryl has been baking these muffins for actually a long time now,” Brian Hart Hoffman says, “and I by no means knew in regards to the recipe till just some months in the past when she known as me as much as chat and he or she occurred to be making these muffins.”

“I first made these muffins at age 12 in my house economics class,” says Brian’s Aunt Cheryl Hoffman. “This recipe has at all times been my favourite straightforward muffin recipe. I bake them particularly when craving a muffin at house.”

The handwritten recipe, titled merely “Muffins,” is recorded on a white, dominated index card that has barely yellowed across the edges, with the occasional splatter right here and there. There’s a star drawn to the precise of the title, indicating it’s turn out to be Cheryl’s go-to muffin recipe over time.

“My husband of 43 years, who doesn’t like many muffins, has at all times cherished these. He prefers consuming them scorching from the oven with plenty of butter if made with out the jam. In the event that they’re made with jam, we each eat them as baked,” Cheryl explains. “Since there are solely the 2 of us, he loves having leftovers the subsequent day break up in half and toasted with butter.” Cheryl at all times pushes herself within the kitchen to bake new issues, however she by no means forgets the significance of important recipes like this and that candy second when she first found her ardour for baking.