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Fill paper-lined muffin cups and if you like, sprinkle with coarse sugar. If you're filling them, poke a hole in the top of each with the handle of a wooden spoon and add a small spoonful of the cream cheese mixture. Bake for 25 minutes, or until springy to the touch.
I tried these muffins with my daughters as my helpers and they may be the very best muffins I have ever produced in my kitchen. I was holding a fussy toddler as I was adding the cream cheese filling, so instead of it being inside the muffins it kind of ended up as a topping. They are still delicious and look great.
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Excellent recipe..I make it slightly different.
I use 2.5 cups whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup of oat bran.
I add 1/4 cup of plain yogurt or kefir for added moistness.
and sweeten with 1/2 cup liquid honey instead of sugar..
When in a huurry instead of cinnamon sugar sprinkle top with choc chips and forget about the icing.
I made these today and they are awesome. I cut the oil amount in half, used half whole-wheat flour and half white, added 1/2 cup each of chopped pecans and dried apricots. Thanks for another great recipe.
Has anyone ever made the muffins with cooked pumpkin? (steamed or baked) I am in Australia and sadly, while there are several varieties of fresh pumpkin in the stores, it is impossible to buy canned pumpkin!
A chewy oatmeal-chocolate chunk cookie is a beautiful thing, and this has become the recipe I go to most often. They use boiling water and baking soda in place of the egg, and are based on a classic from the yellow Best of Bridge book, Enjoy! I like to push a chocolate chunk in the top of each one too, to make sure each cookie gets one, and to make them look extra chocolatey.
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Thank you for this fast and super easy, yummy recipe. My adult son has severe autism and an autoimmune disease. I am always looking for recipes that he will like (picky autism) meets his dietary restrictions (autoimmune disease) and are nutritious for him I need to always modify for his palate and constitution but this recipe was a great start. My notes below were made for his modifications. We tried the recipe as is, (doubled sauce) needs less sugar (perhaps substitute a honey powder), less hot sauce, more broccoli ( at least doubled) for next time. Used a mild dijon.
Sunday, Sept. 14 2012, Noon to 1 pm: The Rain Crows play Ohio Pawpaw Festival, Lake Snowden Park, Albany, Ohio. Don't miss this rare appearance by the band at an awesome festival while sampling Zick's favorite native fruit!Joel Salatin, famed organic farmer profiled in The Omnivore's Dilemma, speaks immediately afterward!
Thursday, May 5-Sunday, May 8, 2016: Julie Zickefoose and Bill Thompson at New River Birding Festival, Fayetteville, WV. Keynotes by Julie Zickefoose and Bill Thompson; music by The Rain Crows on Saturday, May 7--all that and little Chet Baker, Mayor of Opossum Creek Resorts, too.
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Thurs. Sept. 29-Sun., Oct. 2, 2016: Bird Watcher's Digest's Reader Rendezvous: Marietta Homecoming with Julie Zickefoose at Marietta BWD HQ, 149 Acme St., Marietta, OH. Julie will give a talk and tours of Indigo Hill, their home in the Ohio hills.
Tues., Dec. 6, 2016, 6pm: An Evening with Julie Zickefoose, with original art from "Baby Birds" at Westerly Land Trust, 10 High St., Westerly, RI 02891. Tickets $10, a portion of each donated to the Westerly Land Trust. Tickets available at Eventbrite.Books for sale and signing after the illustrated talk and gallery walk.
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Excellent! Since the boreal chickadees don't ground feed, is this new version able to hold up as a brick? With the old version I would take the warm mixture, spread it on baking sheets, let cool, then cut into squares that fit a suet feeder. What do you think?
Thanks for working this problem.
Yeah---me too. Picture of JZ on the floor up to elbows in Zick dough.
I haven't made Zick dough--not sure if could--I am too addicted to peanut butter. The thought of the smell of PB wafting through the kitchen sounds like more than my weak resolve could handle.
This year, while serving Zick dough,6 Bluebirds decided to stop by. Well I was thrilled!!! I've never had Bluebirds in my yard before. Julie I was singing your praises. They seemed to like the Zick dough better than the mealworms,that I also put in the platform feeder. Of course it was freezing out so the mealworms had hats and coats on....that's another story. I remember reading your blog about the gout. I'm so glad you came up with a new way to make it. All my Birds just love it.
I think Zick dough is so appealing to birds, because it's made with LOVE. You've got to love birds, to make that much of it at a time.
Thanks again, Julie for all your knowledge and love of life.
Hi Trixie,
I don't think this stuff would hold up as a block. One of the things I like about it is that it is crumblier than the old recipe so I don't have to bust up chunks and get my hands greasy--you can almost pour it from the jar once it's cool. You might need to mess with the recipe to get it to chunk up like that--less or no cornmeal might be a good place to start.
I plan to fiddle with the recipe some more so a greater proportion of it is chick starter. Who knows. Maybe you can just pout melted peanut butter on chick starter and get something they'd like just as well. I have the ideal focus group just ready and waiting outside the test kitchen.
What I love about this whole thing -- apart from the obvious part about healthier birds -- is that it is such an everyday, and clear, exposition of the scientific method: observe, hypothesize, experiment, modify as needed, repeat, and -- most of all -- share the information and go for repeatable results and consensus.
I mention the obvious only to put it in contrast with the conversation I had today with a "creation scientist." OMG!
It's nice to get back to people who think, instead of simply accepting conclusions, then bending the facts to fit them. Thanks for a late evening breath of sanity.
I'll have to try it--all the birds on my feeders seem to prefer Zick dough to commercial suet.
On another note I do not believe that the ingredients in the suet will cause gout in birds or amy other critter. Think about what causes gout in humans uric acid, birds should not produce higher levels of this acid on this diet--at least the birds here in ND have shown no signs of it.
I've been meaning to look it up and try it (I KNEW I could Google Zick Dough). But it's been spring here since Christmas, so I'll hold off till next year. One question: I'm not feeling real mathy tonight, but it looks like you made 8.5 buttloads of the stuff. Where do you keep what you don't put out?
@Rick: Gout is caused by an excess of purines in the diet. Lard is full of purines. My suspicion that I was seeing gout in my bluebirds was seconded by my avian veterinarian. My hypothesis is that birds can take the rich diet for part of the year as long as it's really cold (you're from ND, right?). But I still think it's a bad idea to feed this stuff--whether old recipe or improved-- year round,and I worry a lot about the birds I hear about who are hooked on it and being fed year-round, like in South Texas. Sure, it brings cool birds right in, but do we want to do that at the expense of their health?
@Murre: I just store it in big plastic jars at room temperature. That's less than a month's supply for me.
@Crackers: Thanks, man. See you at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Wren, some people use Crisco with success. I made a batch and despite offering it for a number of days, had no takers. The birds would pick it up and drop it. I can't blame them--talk about empty calories. Makes me think of those awful sheet cakes...
I heard from a woman who offers a Crisco-based mix that she smears into bark. A pine warbler that's hooked on it is holding up its foot and sitting puffed out. Ugh.
I'm thinking more about phasing the lard out, skewing it toward peanut butter and chick starter. It's a work in progress.
Compelling argument; I will try it. Any advantage to supplementing W/ chick feed our sunflower seeds, or scattering handfuls like cracked corn on card days?
Soon, spring will come and there will be plenty of bugs for bat and bird alike!XOM.