Soaked Flour Whole Grain Frozen Berries Muffin Recipe

Yum! My kids loved helping me make (and eat!) some delicious soaked-flour berry muffins we adapted from another recipe. They helped me mix, measure, and add the largest berries to the center of each muffin. My daughter liked to see the top of the berries poking out, while Son #1 wound up pushing them all the way under.

Working carefully, helping together

Soaked Flour Whole Grain Frozen Berries Muffin Recipe

(Makes 2 dozen muffins)

4 cups fresh ground white wheat flour
1/4 cup fresh ground oat flour
1/4 cup fresh ground Kamut
1/2 tsp yeast

1 1/2 cups yogurt
1/4 cup milk

1 to 1 1/2 cups Rapadura or Succanat

4 eggs, beaten, room temp
7 oz (200 ml) coconut oil, liquid
4 tsp vanilla extract

3 1/2 cups frozen mixed berries

Mix together flours, yeast, 2 TB Rapadura, yogurt and milk and allow to sit, covered with cloth, overnight on the counter.

The next morning, prepare muffin pans and preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Stir together eggs, coconut oil and vanilla extract.

Mix berries and remaining sugar into flour and yogurt. Add in egg mixture and stir until combined.

Fill muffin cups and bake for 25-35 minutes.

Watching the muffins bake ... "Are they done yet?"

Variations:

Reserve 24 large berries and put them in the centers of each filled muffin cup.

I used 1 cup succanat, but the original recipe called for 1.5 cups of sugar and would be sweeter that way.

Delicious Berry Muffins and raw milk!

What's your favorite recipe to make with kids? What baking steps can they handle themselves?

This post was included in the Carnival of Family Life ~ Welcome Summer edition. Check it out!

Natural Health & Nutrition Links

I'm busy this week, but don't want to ignore Raw Milk Mama. So, to provide you with some reading material and to be concise at the same time, I've decided to share with you some links for further reading on topics I love. Some articles I even wrote myself, so it keeps me from feeling like I'm neglecting you.

• What makes Raw Milk so healthy? Check out this page at Real Milk to learn more.
  
• Curious about switching to whole foods and what to stock? Check out the Natural Food Pantry List at my Natural Health Information site. While you're there, subscribe to the Natural Health Information Blog and stay on top of my latest articles.
  
• Looking for a substitute for commercial sports drinks for the summer season ahead? Try coconut water and enjoy a delicious, hydrating beverage that has nothing artificial.
  
• If you've switched to grass-fed beef, you'll want to check out the Grass-Fed Gourmet cookbook, which is nice enough for a wedding shower gift.
  
• Do you know someone with autism? Learn more about a autism diet that is changing children's lives.
  

That should provide a little reading material until I check back in.

What books do you recommend, and what online sources have inspired or helped you? Let me know in the comments, below.

Staying Healthy with Raw Milk

It's almost December, and thankfully, none of the five of us -- two adults and three children under age 5 -- has even had a cold yet.

The secret is the raw, organic milk.

Kevin has a bit of a runny nose, but he gets that when he's teething. Otherwise, we are blessed with robust health that I do not take for granted.

We drink six gallons of raw milk each week. If money were no object, we'd consume eight or nine... maybe make yogurt out of some of it, but probably drink it before I would have the chance, if I know my family.

Megan likes to flex her little arms and say "I'm SOOOO strong! 'Cause I drink raw milk!" The funniest part is that she is naturally very petite, so to hear her say that she is getting "So HUGE!" from consuming the delicious superfood makes me smile. I don't disapoint her, however, as I reply that she is so big, she's going to be taller than Mama soon.

Introduction

By Maria
June 17th, 2007
Hello! I am an at-home mother of three beautiful children. My husband and I were both raised on farms for a portion of our childhoods, but our own journey to a more natural way of life began when we had our first child at a birthing center and in ernest about a year ago when we read Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions and began drinking raw milk.
We are currently reading “Deep Economy” “Little House on a Small Planet” and several other books that continue to challenge our philosophies and inspire our way of life.We are renovating a cabin in the Shenandoah Valley area, which is smaller than our current home, and hope to move in the Spring. We look forward to embarking on a more simple lifestyle and eventually, owning a farm and growing our own food.
(Note: I am moving my first few posts over from my old blog site, thus the different dates.)