Recipes for the Soul---Sugar Free Pear Spice Muffins

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Sugar-Free Pear Spice MuffinsIngredients:

1 16-ounce can pears, drained and diced3/4 cup apple juice concentrate1 1/2 Tablespoons vanilla3/4 cup unbleached white flour2 teaspoons baking soda3/8 teaspoon lite (or regular) salt1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon1/4 teaspoon nutmeg1 cup wheat bran2 1/2 Tablespoons canola oil or safflower oil2 egg whites or 1/3 cup egg substitute1/3 cup currants plumped (or raisins, if currants unavailable)Instructions:Combine apple juice concentrate and vanilla.

Soak chopped pears in this mixture while preparing the remaining ingredients.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Meanwhile, mix together dry ingredients: flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and bran.Add oil, lightly beaten egg whites, and plumped currants to the pearmixture, and gently stir.

Pour this over the dry ingredients, and mix with a fork, just until moistened.Fill muffin cups 3/4 full, and bake at 350 degrees for 13 to 18 minutes.They're done when they spring back to the touch or when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Let cool 10-15 minutes.

Makes 12 muffins.

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