My father had brought us lots of little green apples from his tree. I'm not sure of the variety. Maybe Granny Smith?
Joe (my three-year old) added some dry ingredients to the batter and then he made a tinker toy sculpture. I think it looks nice in this photo.
The observant reader may notice that our own apple muffin recipe does not call for milk. "So what's it doing in the photo?" you may wonder.
Well, since we wanted to use the apples in our muffins, I looked to our very own tried and true "Astral Apple Muffins" recipe. But alas, we did not have any lemon juice! So we tried a different recipe. But that recipe called for buttermilk, and we didn't have any buttermilk either. However, I knew that we could use a secret ingredient.
You can use sour milk in place of buttermilk. To make sour milk, you add a tablespoon of vinegar (or lemon juice) to a cup of milk and wait five minutes.
When the muffins were done, Gabriel said "these are the best things ever!" But after Joe ate off the cinnamon topping, he threw his away.