Marmalade muffins

    "... And when she got there, the cupboard was bare ..." and so the poor family had a modified version of the thing she'd intended to make for them.

    We had a small bowl of the weekend's marmalade sitting in the fridge, and I decided to put it into a muffin mixture, so I set to only to discover that someone has been using things and not then adding them to the shopping list so we lacked a few ingredients. I went ahead with the recipe (Marmalade Apricot Muffins from Susan Reimer's Muffins Fast and Fantastic) but used demerara sugar instead of granulated, poppy seeds in place of apricots - though that was my intention all along - and made a very small quantity of vegetable oil stretch a long way. And then I found there were no baking cases of the right size ...