Name: Graham Gems
Yield: Makes 12 to 15 muffins
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 cup blueberries; 1 cup each whole wheat and unbleached white flour; 4 tablespoons butter, melted; ¼ cup molasses; ½ teaspoon each salt and baking soda; 1 cup sour milk; 1 tablespoon baking powder

Preparation info

Makes
12 to 15
muffins

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

I Hear America Cooking

By Betty Fussell

Published 1986

About

Dr. Sylvester Graham’s name was so strongly associated with the flour we now call “all-bran” that his name became attached to breads, crackers, muffins, or gems. The evolution of the gem pan from muffin hoops is as curiously Anglo-American as the evolution of Graham’s flour from English “wholemeal” flour. Originally, the batter for muffins was leavened with yeast, as Hannah Glasse makes clear in her 1796 recipe “To make Muffins a