Rach-
Here it is- Reems Nostalgia Post #1. I know that I've romanticized the Reems banana chocolate chip muffin several times in the past, but humour me one more time. This muffin was a staple in the Reems snack cupboard, right up there with the chocolate chip square. My friend Suzanne still remembers the Reems bananana chocolate chip muffin - she recently reminisced about the pangs of jealousy she felt at the sight of me biting into a still warm, fresh-from-the-oven muffin each morning at school. Now, while I can definitely corroborate that I did eat a daily muffin, Suzanne's memory of a warm muffin, is proof that I am not the only one that has romanticized Reems muffin memories.
No, in the mid-90s, for a warm muffin you had to be at the Reems house around 10am on a Saturday morning. The coffee would be made, the muffins ready for sampling (though only one per child/adult, the rest would be cooling for recess consumption that week). Joan would have already buzzed the intercom multiple times to my room that morning, to ensure that I had cleaned the bathroom, and that I was cleaning my room. I would have assured her, multiple times, that yes I was working on it, and then would have returned to my novel. The only thing that would have torn me from my clothes-strewn lair would have been the smell of muffins and the promise of snack time.
This is one of the original Reems recipes I had copied down - the original recipe called for 1/2 cup butter, but I don't think that Joan, even in her pre-low fat days would have done the full 1/2 cup. I compromised and used 1/3. Now, in true Reems-fashion you should double the recipe and individually saran wrap most of them to freeze them for future lunches.
Banana Chocolate Muffins
Cream together:
1/3 cup soft butter (can sub canola oil)
1/2 cup sugar
Beat in:
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup mashed banana (2 large, 3 regular)
Add dry ingredients:
2 cups flour (can do part whole wheat)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt (can half this)
1 cup chocolate chips
Mix together. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 min. Makes 12 muffins. Double for the Reems quantity of choice, 24.
lovely presentation hales...you really outdid yourself this time :)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite muffin is always the banana chocolate chip one. Will make this on Monday and see if it beats the Dekens banana chocolate chip muffin! AND, someone is going to be on foodgawker soon, check out that composition and lighting:)
ReplyDeletemmm, I made these last night. So yummy. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI well remember ice cream pails full of these gems sent along on many a basketball trip.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos! How I wish I was a Reems back in the mid-90's!
ReplyDeleteThanks Louise and Maria - it's always great to hear when people make, or even think of making, our recipes:)
ReplyDeleteAnd Ali - ah, being a Reems in the mid 90's, for me those were the good old days of giant sweat shirts and unfortunate hair cuts, all of which I was blissfully unaware of.