🔵 1938 Depression Era Bran Muffin Recipe

Are you looking for a low sugar (but still sweet) oil free (but still super moist) Home made bran muffin recipe? Then this 1938 Depression Era Bran Muffin Recipe is for you! The recipe uses dates, but you could easily make these as a raisin bran muffin.
Ingredients:
250 mL (1 cup) thick, full fat sour cream
125 mL (½ cup) white sugar
1 egg
250 mL ( 1 cup) all purpose flour
5 mL (1tsp) baking soda
500 mL (2 cups) bran
5-6 dates, chopped
2 mL (½ tsp) salt
Method:
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF)
Combine sour cream, sugar and egg until smooth.
Mix flour and baking soda, then mix into sour cream.
Mix in bran, salt, and dates.
Portion into a 12 cup muffin tin, and bake 20-25 minutes
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[@tigereyemusic]

My grandmother would put an X next to the best recipes.

[@kathleenfortner3729]

My mom did the same. I have her Good Housekeeping war time cookbook and all of her favorites are marked with an X.❤

[@irishpixierose]

My Mom made a six week muffin recipe you keep in the fridge and baked the amount you wanted daily. One of my favorite muffins.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

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[@acperak]

I found your channel 2 days ago and ive been hooked, watched every single video, for some reason its so relaxing hahah

[@JosiahMcCarthy]

Oh my, is it even possible to watch all of this channels videos in 2 days?

[@michaelfries1443]

just happened to stumble upon your coca-cola video and enjoy your channel. Here is the bran muffin recipe my dad has been using for 40 years. It uses bran cereal. Definitely agree about the butter! 1 2/3 cups Bran cereal 1 1/3 cups milk ¼ cup packed brown sugar ¼ cup molasses o r treacle 1/3 cup softened margarine or butter 1 egg 1 ¼ cup flour ½ tsp. salt 1 ½ tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix bran and milk in a bowl. Put butter and sugar in bowl and cream with spoon until fluffy. Then add treacle and egg until well blended. Mix flour, salt, baking powder, and soda in a small bowl. Add bran mixture to butter mixture. Add flour to butter mixture and stir until just moistened. Do not beat! Batter will be lumpy. Spoon into greased muffin cups. Bake 20-25 mins.

[@kathysunshine699]

X Marks the spot for treasure!...I would have tried THAT one!😉

[@cassettetape7643]

I'm totally gonna try these, thanks!

[@JohnPaulSaylor]

I was looking for a good bran muffin recipe after watching an episode of Frasier where he mentions what he eats for breakfast. Now I make these every couple of weeks. I keep them in the fridge and have them for breakfast every morning. Thanks!!!

[@BaneWilliams]

"Buy quality because you're not going to use it that often" I am a sour cream fiend, and I would say I use a tub a week at a minimum. I love the flavour profile of sour cream, and it's completely brilliant. I very much agree that it's depressing how absolutely terrible most sour cream is.

[@cherriberri7161]

If you never tried it before the bran muffin recipe on the side of the “All Bran” box is delicious & easy! I always add 1 teaspoon of melted butter & teaspoon of vanilla lovin this channel 💗

[@GrainneDhu]

I love your Depression era videos! I do have a data point to throw into the mix. I'm 63 and when I was a child, my family had extensive contacts in the nearby Mennonite community. We were welcomed with open arms at a time when many people thought my parents should not have been allowed to marry due to miscegenation laws. When the Mennonite Aid society decided to compile a cookbook to sell as a fundraiser, of course my mother bought a copy. And the recipes were nothing like what they ate every day! They called for ingredients that the Mennonite families rarely used, such as condensed soup. So why did they do this? Because people contributed their 'aspirational' recipes, those things that they didn't eat every day, things that were treats to them. Why bother contributing a recipe for making ordinary sandwich bread, every cook knew how to make bread and could come up with her own variations. Better to contribute recipes that other cooks weren't familiar with. So perhaps the same thing is true for this recipe book? It may not have been that dates were cheaper or more common than raisins (altho' I think there's a good chance that dates really were cheaper), it may have been that dates made the recipe something a little special, a little unusual.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Probably exactly this - most cookbooks do have that aspirational aspect to them.

[@GrainneDhu]

@@GlenAndFriendsCooking, to this day! I look at the recipes of various popular chefs and think "well, that looks good but not like something I'd make next week."

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Bran Muffins...my favorite muffins of all and I agree with Jules, yes for butter. I have never tried dates but will try to remember to do that with my next baking. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Y'all have a Blessed day.

[@stellaz2595]

My Canada grandma (born in the late Victorian era) had bran muffins and biscuits on the table at every meal. Brings back memories. Agree about the butter!

[@srenmller9809]

I love cooking and photographing, and I think it is fun to try out old recipes, so I find this series great. I have a cookbook that belonged to my grandmother which is printed in 1926. I tried making these muffins, and I really like them. They are best with butter like you mention, but I also think they do really good on their own. With this recipe I have found some great muffins to take with me, when I am out for hours photographing nature and/or landscapes. Thank you for a great channel.

[@louiseasaffl7708]

If an old recipe has an x beside it then it usually means that that is the best one. :)

[@psleep4255]

This recipe is great. Ty for sharing this with us. I developed my own bran muffin recipe back in 1980. I used applesauce, blackstrap molasses and/or honey. No internet then. 😂 And here I thought I was being original. I’m definitely trying the sour cream and keeping the molasses. ❤️😍🤗🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@earlinejackson8151]

Love your videos, wasn't around during the depression, but my parents were, and my mother used many depression era recipes as I was growing up and I loved most all of them! Still do when I make them! And I'm learning more , thanks to your videos, so, thank you!

[@jamesellsworth9673]

BRAN MUFFINS: What a great favorite from my past! We began with a Kellogg's bran cereal product in my childhood! Down in the Mid-South of the USA, many of us relish using sorghum molasses rather than cane. Far less sulfur and iron; floral and delicate aromas. Certainly I DO LIKE light brown cane syrup...but NOT blackstrap! The real sour cream is a wonderful touch! I am with Jules on the need for butter. YES for dates! They add sweetness. And DATES are a nutritional powerhouse.

[@judithmaryhill4862]

A good breakfast choice including high fibre ingredients. A favourite of mine uses prunes, but raisins and date are great. Stay safe and keep sharing 😍😍😍

[@l-bird]

Thanks for the tip on good sour cream. Dates? Interesting. If the author lived on one of the coasts, then perhaps date palm trees were readily available. I love bran muffins, but they are so hard to find. They're not as popular as they were in the 70's and 80's. Most bran muffins I've had were dark, so I bet they had the dark strap molasses... and raisins. Can't wait to try this recipe. Thanks.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Thanks! I know I come across as a bit of a lunatic when I talk about sour cream - But I just get so worked up that big food companies are cutting corners to make a profit, while we get less and less quality. There used to a mall chain here back in the 70's and 80's called MMMMMMMMMuffins. Haven't seen one of those in a long time!

[@annarussell3751]

I always think of dates as part of a bran muffin recipe. We used to be able to buy a mix for these, but I don’t find the mixes anymore. I can’t wait to try these.

[@sennest]

Very cool, Glen! Great choice. You hit it right on with the sour cream thing. Julie had it right on with the butter👍👍😎. How was the texture, I personally prefer a crisp or crunch texture to muffins, and they looked like they had texture! Can you be a bad boy and make the other muffin for comparison? Just curious, as you are like a recipe-diviner! Thank you so much!

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

They did have a crispy texture on the exterior, not too crunchy, just a bit. We've talked about doing all of the recipes in these books that have 'X's beside them... maybe down the road.

[@sennest]

@@GlenAndFriendsCooking They looked like it - light crunch and fluffy interior. You never know what was said about the other recipe writer after church on Sunday over lunch😉😉. "Moral" quality= recipe quality! Many thanks!

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Yeah they could have been rivals since 4H!

[@annarussell3751]

I’m making these now. I really like the dates in them. It’s classics that way. I used to be able to buy a bran muffin mix at the grocery store. It was really convenient and good. They are not available in my area anymore. Do any of you still have the mixes?

[@garlicgirl3149]

In all my beloved cookbooks...a mark of any kind including an X meant I liked it.

[@CAP198462]

I don’t know about taste, but these muffins sure are photogenic. That thumbnail slaps.

[@Taylor101310]

The sour cream available everywhere in the US is Daisy and it only has milk products and bacteria. I think I can speak for most people and say it’s the go to here. In Canada is there a different go to brand that isn’t good?

[@synosist]

Okay, i can't help but say.... you two are the cure team!!

[@MeBeingAble]

My aunt makes the molasses one. And its gorgeous. Are you sure its not x marks the spot?

[@mndlessdrwer]

That's a good way to make use of a fairly perishable part of the grain that wouldn't have been used in the final flour produced for sale.

[@mesummika569]

LOL it, don't hold back Glen say it like it is. I love it when you are honest. It's crap! But on the dates sometimes I wonder about it as well. I mean there are studies out there that give evidence that eating fruit helped with depression and being the time just makes you wonder if that was part of it along with the shelf life etc. I know from my grandparents it was a stable way past the depression era and till the day they both left this earth that was still something asked for.

[@samanthageiger5851]

I’ve not had bran muffins with dates, though if I have choices of muffins I’m usually going to pick a bran. They always seem syrupy to me.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Yes Dates on their own are really sticky sweet - but the small amount in these muffins, seems just right.

[@DC-vw7yf]

Hello Glen, may I ask the cup size of your scoop please?

[@alijade]

Glen - what temp did you bake them at? 350?

[@homeiss]

Don't discount the "X", I made that recipe last night and it was good. Real moist. When I went to scoop it into my pan I was worried because it was the consistency of a loose pancake batter, but they had a pretty great rise! Things I WILL do differently next time: Slightly less molasses Maybe a little less milk so it's less soupy And I baked at 425 for 15, but 400 probably would have been a better call

[@iancrawford4977]

I think dates were used a lot because they are calorically dense with a lot of sugar and fats in them 👌 so yummy, idk about the history of date cultivation during the depression tho

[@slawnski]

They know! They know! :-)

[@ronmartin5123]

Eating Depression muffins this morning off my Grandma’s recipe!💦

[@stephenmorrish]

Do you think the dates are so common is a British Empire thing? They keep well in transit and somewhere in the Empire dates were plentiful and were shipped to all the far-flung corners of the Empire?

[@GwynneDear]

I just had an aha moment. People back then didn’t need exact measurements because they all had to cook for themselves. I’m sure there were some crappy cooks, but most people had to know how to cook intuitively, thus knew how to operate an oven, which most of the time was wood burning and without thermostats. If you haven’t guessed, I’m stoned.

[@carychiasson9834]

Julie is so hilarious in the videos

[@Stephenrsm7600]

Or the X could have been used to designate the recipe that she used the most????? (I know I have used an X to show which re ipe I needed).

[@ashleebenest1404]

Use buttermilk instead of sour cream Glen! Works better 😊

[@colleenosburn-sapp3201]

Best with spread cream cheese!💖

[@jovi_al]

My great great grandmother invented a bran muffin recipe that has been passed down through the family and oh my god are they good. The method is weird though, and calls for quite a bit of buttermilk.

[@cathyj.2144]

any chance you would be willing to share that recipe??

[@mikebMN]

Wouldn't "X" mark the spot? It would be interesting to know what items from the other recipes with X's made you conclude they should be avoided.

[@breannam611]

My guess on the more dates to raisins would simply be be that grapes can be used to make wine. I'm sure you can make alchoal with dates but grape seem more common to me. I imagine that either they made their own wine from grapes they bought or grapes/rasins were most used to make then sell wine something that could probably sell for more then raisins. But this is just my random guess with no research to back me up what so ever.

[@LilGamez21]

I forgot about the sour cream. Sour Cream in a muffin recipe?!? Must be good.

[@MarylZ]

Hey Glen, couldn't it be a case of "x marks the spot"? Maybe all the recipes with a little x next to it are the favorite ones. ;) I dunno, just a thought!

[@Fuhuaze123]

Maryl Z. i think the good ones r usually marked with a tick from previous videos

[@MarylZ]

@@Fuhuaze123 Oh! Really? I didn't know that. Well, so in that case maybe X is truly the wrong choice, hahaha.

[@williamfreyholtz4267]

Did you ever think that a recipe marked with an "X" might have been the way the previous owner designated which of the recipes that she preferred ?

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

I have 1000s of these cookbooks - sometimes it's very hard to discern what the original owner means with the 'X'. Some books they've written in the margin somewhere "X = No Good", sometimes they've written the opposite, and sometimes they give no indication. So yeah, I have thought about it... and it' can be a fools game trying to figure out what someone means by an X written in some cases 200 - 300 years ago.

[@sue4e3]

my grandmother used to say dates were better because they were sweeter , and lasted longer withour drying out

[@sawadee-er7vu]

Personally, I'll stick with All-Bran muffins...or I would, except that every supermarket in my area is out of All-Bran. Even Amazon is out of it. I have NO idea why.

[@FRUNTCASTER]

Looking at the butter/sour milk substitute at the bottom of the recipe, it makes me wonder what seemingly magical flavors might come out, if you sub'd-in cultured butter? Make it on the counter like grandma (I've cheated and used a tiny dollop of sour cream as a starter). It certainly would fit the era, as cultured butter was far more common for it's shelf stable nature, in the pre refrigeration age.

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Yes!

[@flamingpieherman9822]

I was thinking it would be easier just to buy a box of Raisin Bran and chop it up and then add your wet ingredients... to me that's depression-era cooking. This other way is a little expensive Ps I would probably be the one to put an x on the favorite recipes versus the ones I didn't like

[@freequest]

Keep forgetting that American muffins are just bread cupcakes. Nothing against them but when I think of muffins, I think of the English ones.

[@carolelliott9150]

Western sour cream the best

[@lynniespringer1705]

I noticed in my grandmother's cookbooks that she marked her recipes with an X which meant those we the ones she used. Not everyone uses an X to mean they do not like it. I would think that if more recipes do not have a mark those would be ones that were used. The ones with an X were the ones tries and liked. Just a thought.

[@calvinquesnel198]

Moderate oven is 350 degrees.. :)

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Yeah depends on which cookbook - in the time period it was all over the map.

[@DarthVader1977]

I swear I gain 1 pound every video I watch. 😍

[@evahamrick3282]

Raisins in this time period probably need to be seeded, dates probably not so hard to do.

[@kerriwiese5983]

With some Apple Butter on it.

[@igot5onit214]

They used all the refined sugar for making moonshine

[@bigfatbaataed]

Bran muffins are just a butter delivery system...

[@operationumbrella230]

Ewwww I did not know there are such weird sour creams existed! Nigela Lawson's savory breakfast muffin recipe ai watched was similar to this muffin. She put spinach

[@lisagrafton2529]

If the recipe wasn't x'd through, maybe "grandma" put an x next to it to signify that recipe is the one she liked.???

[@MagdaRantanplan]

i make Xses next to things i liked, if there are several of the same or similar things.

[@jasonlahey1550]

A Glen Dozen

[@DaleLadDaz]

x marks the spot

[@SeanEmman]

Buy quality ingredients for a depression era dessert? No when I eat a era themed food I want the same quality items they had at that time!

[@jkrycz]

Eva Braun's muffin recipe? What the

[@7-ten]

Depression-era food... well that's depressing 🤣

[@charliemay9893]

Too long for video and indecisive