2-2/3 C. bisquick*
2 TB. sugar
1 12oz. can beer
Mix all together. Grease and flour** muffin cups an fill about 2/3rds full of batter. Bake for 12 minutes at 375F. They will not get brown on top.
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*Update on American Educational Quality*
So I actually checked the mighty internet, source of all unbiased, recent, and totally accurate information, and apparently (according to several sites), the United States, while definitely below China on reading, math, AND science, did actually beat Germany in reading in 2003, when this assessment was done. (India did not choose to participate.)
Oh Beer Muffins...one of the few pakcages food-plus-packaged food combos that I truly enjoy. Yes, maybe I am a snob. But I am a self-sustaining snob! Why bother eating out of a box when it's very nearly as easy to fix something recognizable from start to finish as food? Whoa, I amost roamed into foodinista land. So to be honest, the process of learning how to cook is not easy. It takes years. It's definitely a process. But once you're there, or even marginally there, the actual cooking is not much worse than your average box mix. Take for example, the instructions on packaged cookie mix. "Combine mix, egg/oil/whatever the box calls for, and blend. Roll out and cut. Bake at x temp. for x minutes. Enjoy." Compare that with your average cookie recipe: "Combine x, y, z, q, r, s, lmnop. Mix. Roll out. Bake at x temp for x minutes. Enjoy!" Basically, you have to be able to find more things in your kitchen to do it the homemade way. I would add a caveat about accurate measuring except most box recipes (for cookies or otherwise) have you measure stuff too, even if it's just water. Returning to the subject of Beer Muffins, my Grandmom recently showed me a box of beer muffin mix she bought. Yes, it still requires a can of beer* (*not included), but additionally requires butter, which is not even in the original recipe! What does this say about the American cook that this product is even for sale? Have we really gotten that lazy? Or that uncreative? I vote "uncreative," since decades of American public schools trying to win the Space Race by requiring increasingly younger students to memorize increasingly longer lists of facts has, unsurprisingly, caused us not to beat China or Japan or India or even Germany at math and science ability. Not that I'm dissing German scientists.
*Bisquick is a premixed product containing levening and salt and possibly some other things. I haven't checked in a while. Self-rising flour works just fine as a substitute. Or look up a good equivalency recipe. (I can't remember off the top of my head how many teaspoons of baking powder/baking soda go into regular all-purpose flour to make it into "self-rising".)
**For optimum laziness, use a spray can of baking spray, which contains an aerosolized mixture of flour and oil. Hey, it does work pretty well, and I've never noticed a funny taste on my baked goods after using it.
2 TB. sugar
1 12oz. can beer
Mix all together. Grease and flour** muffin cups an fill about 2/3rds full of batter. Bake for 12 minutes at 375F. They will not get brown on top.
________
*Update on American Educational Quality*
So I actually checked the mighty internet, source of all unbiased, recent, and totally accurate information, and apparently (according to several sites), the United States, while definitely below China on reading, math, AND science, did actually beat Germany in reading in 2003, when this assessment was done. (India did not choose to participate.)
Oh Beer Muffins...one of the few pakcages food-plus-packaged food combos that I truly enjoy. Yes, maybe I am a snob. But I am a self-sustaining snob! Why bother eating out of a box when it's very nearly as easy to fix something recognizable from start to finish as food? Whoa, I amost roamed into foodinista land. So to be honest, the process of learning how to cook is not easy. It takes years. It's definitely a process. But once you're there, or even marginally there, the actual cooking is not much worse than your average box mix. Take for example, the instructions on packaged cookie mix. "Combine mix, egg/oil/whatever the box calls for, and blend. Roll out and cut. Bake at x temp. for x minutes. Enjoy." Compare that with your average cookie recipe: "Combine x, y, z, q, r, s, lmnop. Mix. Roll out. Bake at x temp for x minutes. Enjoy!" Basically, you have to be able to find more things in your kitchen to do it the homemade way. I would add a caveat about accurate measuring except most box recipes (for cookies or otherwise) have you measure stuff too, even if it's just water. Returning to the subject of Beer Muffins, my Grandmom recently showed me a box of beer muffin mix she bought. Yes, it still requires a can of beer* (*not included), but additionally requires butter, which is not even in the original recipe! What does this say about the American cook that this product is even for sale? Have we really gotten that lazy? Or that uncreative? I vote "uncreative," since decades of American public schools trying to win the Space Race by requiring increasingly younger students to memorize increasingly longer lists of facts has, unsurprisingly, caused us not to beat China or Japan or India or even Germany at math and science ability. Not that I'm dissing German scientists.
*Bisquick is a premixed product containing levening and salt and possibly some other things. I haven't checked in a while. Self-rising flour works just fine as a substitute. Or look up a good equivalency recipe. (I can't remember off the top of my head how many teaspoons of baking powder/baking soda go into regular all-purpose flour to make it into "self-rising".)
**For optimum laziness, use a spray can of baking spray, which contains an aerosolized mixture of flour and oil. Hey, it does work pretty well, and I've never noticed a funny taste on my baked goods after using it.
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