The Goat Gazette Cookbook was published in 2008 with favorite recipes from staff and readers. We sold a lot of cookbooks and then we added The Second Helping of more great recipes. We shared recipes from Goat Gazette readers for many years – maybe the owner of this recipe is still reading the blog?
Here are the rhubarb muffins – which took a lot of guesswork. I’d like to speak to the staff member who typed this up and didn’t question what wasn’t there.
I “forced” the batter into 12 muffin papers but each was very full and they took quite a long time to bake AND I forgot to keep track of the minutes. So – bake until a knife comes out clean, I guess.
The muffins are moist and delicious and I will make more and share with friends but no time tomorrow.
Molly came this afternoon but was a lazy fat dog who wouldn’t even go to the grove with us.
Cold here today – I don’t think we reached 50 degrees.
Thanks for the muffin recipe. I love buying old church cookbooks. It’s so interesting to see what people liked to eat. Of course no one would put a bad recipe in. I’m so sad and mad at the same time because we have another cat show up at our farm. That is two in six months. I wish people would take their pet to a shelter or find a new home for it if they can no longer care for it. Dumping it in the country fixes nothing.
Domestic animals can’t survive in the wild. We will take this new cat in, but also at the added expense of fixing it, vet visits, food, and flea and tick meds etc.
Marie – I couldn’t agree more! I really don’t want any more cats to care for – Mortie was the last to appear but when they show up, like you, I’ll have to act. It isn’t my responsibility to take the cat to the shelter and they aren’t even accepting cats now!! Sigh – I wish I could offer an answer
Mary, I sent you a rhubarb Dessert recipe via the email address you’ve listed on your blog. I hope you get it and feel free to share on the blog! It even has time and temperature and pan size directions!
Lisa – did you read the blog post? Your recipe is posted
Lisa – oh! Did you happen to send the recipe prior to the post? I can’t really tell. But thanks – it looks delicious
On the recipe front. Our family grew up on oatmeal cookies. We would make triple batches and wrap in wax paper and put in the freezer. We had three freezers, One for meat as we butchered our own meat. One for day old bread, mom would go to Wonder Bread and buy 100 loaves and also a bag where day old pastries would be just dumped into. You never knew what you were getting. Very fun as we never bought pastries from the counter. And one freezer for vegetables we froze.
My sister made the comment that she had to rewrite the recipe for her friends because the directions were very vague and didn’t tell you to refrigerate the dough or that you could freeze it.
Also we used to use lard as were made that also. So instead of butter Crisco butter sticks work the best.
I made a double batch to take to my brothers visitation where they were enjoyed by all. I have a very large family of 11 siblings.
Rita – with 12 kids I guess I can see why you had 3 freezers!!!! Whoa!!
I’m going to the farm market this weekend and get rhubarb from one of the vendors to make this recipe. But I think I’ll do the cake like Sue mentioned. My husband loves rhubarb. We don’t grow it but I believe I paid $3 a bundle for it last year at the farm markets.
I just made the muffins this morning. They are very good…..I had one for dessert for lunch. I did not use papers, I just sprayed the muffins with oil spray and they came out without breaking up. I don’t like the papers because so much of the muffin sticks to the paper. I got 22 muffins from the batch. I used the regular size muffin tin.
Going to do some sewing on my DD # 5 this afternoon. It’s nice out today, but not going to plant my tomatoes until maybe Saturday, after it warms up a little more.
Jeanine – thanks – I said I forced the batter into 12 – haha! I’ll make note on my recipe.
I made rhubarb sourdough muffins the other day, except I poured the batter into an 8×8 pan and called it
Rhubarb SD Cake. It was really good that way and I didn’t have to mess with the muffin tin or papers. I am finding it difficult to bake these days. I still put together 3 meals a day, but extra baking has become hard. I do stupid things like leaving out ingredients, forgetting to time it, using too small or too big of a pan, etc. It used to be easy for me. Now not so much. That is why I was tickled with the cake. It came out perfect for a change.
Sue – what a great suggestion!
So many of the recipes I have from my mom and our farm neighbors are written very much like this and, often, with even less “instructions.” I guess because everyone knew what they knew . . . how much batter would tell you how many pans or sheets and you “should know” about how long it takes to bake a couple loaves of bread, a tin of muffins, or whatever. And, there were so many different kinds of stoves and ovens . . . well, you knew what temp and how long in YOUR oven! Standardized everything changed all that. My mom’s rye bread recipe, which she made a couple times a week, still reads “bake until sounds hollow.” I know what that means; but, a lot of other bakers probably wouldn’t. I wonder how many of us have favorite recipes that tell us to bake until “the toothpick comes out clean?” We live in a very different world!
Marlene – YES! Many of my old recipe cards read like that and some have no directions at all – lots are in my mom’s handwriting
I was going to ask for the recipe and voila! The one I found in my file calls for buttermilk but I think OJ will provide more flavor. My husband lost his sense of smell and taste during Covid so he might prefer the added zip. The one in my file gives no info on amount, temp, or time. I guess old time cooks might not need that. I am old but not much of a cook.
I haven’t responded in a while. Things have been super crazy and sad. Crazy trying to get all the spring garden things accomplished. Weeding flower beds, picking up brush and burning, quilting, and the normal everyday thing one has to do.
What is very sad is my brother 68 years old passed away on April 19 after battling cancer for two years. The last few months were really rough. Then this last weekend two of my aunts also passed away.
I would like to thank all who have sent lovely pictures of their quilts and pets. Always a treat to see what pops up on Mary’s site. We are a community through all the great post. Thank you Mary for making it special.
Dear Rita,
I am so sorry to hear you lost your brother. And your aunts. I think of you often, going to Texas to care for your daughter in Texas. May God comfort you at this time.
Thanks Carolyn, Kim is doing well! She just got a promotion and closed on a Condo in Galveston as a vacation home. This was something the wanted to do before the cancer issue.
Rita – I love Galveston!! Won’t that be fun for them?
Thanks for the recipe! Now I will be on the hunt for some rhubarb!!!! Those are the best cookbooks — when I go to thrift stores I love to look for them. The best are the ones from Churches. My nursing group put a book together years ago. Now you’ve got me thinking and I think I have a rhubarb cake recipe……. somewhere…… I’ll have to find it and send it to you.
Lynette – yes, please send the recipe if you find it
Brought a memory back. When we were kids we would pick a piece of rhubarb in the garden and eat it. Now kids have to buy sour candy to get that rush!
Thank you for the muffin recipe, it sounds delicious!
That was unknown to me that you also made cookbooks. I have a lot of cookbooks from all of the different states we’ve worked in over the years. I’ve never baked anything with rhubarb but a friend of mine from North Dakota made the best rhubarb muffins ever. Her and I used to get together once a week and bake food to take to the field-me to our harvest crew-her to her daughter and son-in-law who were farmers. And when I brought the kids home for school, she took meals to the field for our crew. Your recipe brought back a lot of fond memories of our times together. She passed away several years ago.
Don’t you just love old recipes that don’t include all the details? On a whim, I decided to bake bread one night so called my Grandmother to see what recipe she used. She said she used Immanuel Lutheran page whatever. So I grabbed the book and found the recipe. I should have known to give up when the recipe called for a 5 cent cake of yeast but called Grandma back and to ask what a 5 cent cake of yeast was. (It’s standard cake or packet of yeast.) Made several more phone calls before she went to bed. I made the dough, set it to rise, baked it, and threw the entire batch away after baking it. The bread was terrible, didn’t rise well and I didn’t bake it long enough. Grandma asked me how it turned out and after I confessed all the issues she just calmly said making bread takes practice and she had thrown batches out when she first started baking also. She at least fed it to pigs so it wasn’t a total waste.
DebMac – oh, yes – my neighbor Emma was a fabulous cook and used to bring me the best kolaches (she was Czech) and little buns and her famous angel food cake on my birthday – always with a flower from her garden on top.
Thanks for the recipe- Ill have to try some frozen rhubarb. Your Morie (?) is the very cutest – looks cuddley!
Your muffins sound delicious even though I have never tasted rhubarb before. I have never tasted a muffin I didn’t like!
Sweet, sweet Miss Mortie and Hazel, too cute!🥰