Power Muffins

“Power Muffins (coconut-almond)

Mix together:
1/3 cup Olive oil (or margarine)
3/8 cup Unsulfered blackstrap molasses
1/3 cup Honey (Or 2/3 cup honey with no molasses)
1 cup Water
2 tablespoons Powdered skim milk

Sift in:
2 ½ cups Oats
1 cup Whole wheat flower
3/8 cup Brown sugar
¼ tablespoon Salt
¼ tablespoon Baking powder

Stir well;

Add:
½ cup grated coconut (fresh dried is best, store bought is good)
½ cup almond slivers
(or substitute anything or combination you desire (walnuts, pecans, craisins, raisins, dried fruit) to total 1 cup.)

Grease or spray muffin pan
Fill each muffin hole about two-thirds full.
(You can spread this mix on a greased cookie sheet or bread pan (5x7), but I like it much better in a muffin pan because each muffin is crusted all around and holds up better for traveling.)

Bake at 300 degrees (F) for ONE HOUR.
Don’t take them out.
Cut the temperature back to 200 degrees and open the oven door just a tad with a spatula.
Let cook (dry) for another TWO HOURS.

Best I can calculate, the total yield for the mix is 3500 calories; 640g carbohydrates; 80 g Fat; 60g Protein. Divide this by the number of muffins.
12 muffins = 292 calories; 53g Carbohydrates; 7g Fat; 5g Protein each

Store in the freezer
Keeps on trail for weeks, or until the blue fuzzy stuff starts to grow.



(Recipe adapted from Le Subtil’s Indestructible Logan Bread that was adapted from June Fleming’s “The Well-Fed Backpacker.)”

“Thanks, BS. Sounds pretty tasty!”

“Mmm Mmm Good!

Wow, total calories and all. That's a load of BS! chuckle chuckle

... but I like the blue fuzzy stuff! It helps me talk to my dead relatives!”

“mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

“They are.
I shared some on the last TT Mt. Rogers trip. They seemed to like them.”

“Carrots are one of nature's best trail foods. They convert to usable energy very quickly.”

“You can substitute carrots in this recipe if you wish. Substitute for 1/2 cup of coconut or almonds or both.”

“Thanks BS. I've sampled Le Subtil's logan bread but like the idea of a muffin for durability. Great idea.”

“"Some People... Some People like cupcakes exclusively, while Myself, I say there is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of God's Grey Earth as that Prince of Foods: THE MUFFIN!"

FZ
Bongo Fury (1975)


[But You Knew I would post this eventually, didn't you?]”

“No, I meant that carrots would make a better trail food than those sugar laden muffins.”

“Maybe for a dayhike or a weekend trip, but a ten day trip? I think I'd like a muffin.”

“bacpac,
Carrots are sugar laden food. Carrots are a high starch and sugar food, just like potatoes and bread. This recipe is oat laden with some stuff to give it a better flavor and hold it together. Complex carbs, not simple sugars like...carrots!”

“WHAT???

where are the idiots who always post zappa crap?”

“uh-oh. Killed off One Brain Cell Too Many, dude.

LOL”

“Well i guess i can't read

I knew some idiot would post a zappa reference, its not like the muffin man reference has never been used on tt a gabillion times already”

“didn't mean to reference you as an idiot, per se, it's a catch all term”