It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.

James Denney

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs	Polish	Dessert	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Oats; quick-cooking or old-fashioned; uncooked
1	c	Flour; all-purpose
1	ts	Baking soda
1	ts	Ground cinnamon
1/2	ts	Ground allspice
1/3	c	Honey
1/4	c	Skim milk
1/4	c	Salad oil
1		Egg
2		Diced medium-sized red cooking apples

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Prepare muffin pan.
2.  In large bowl, mix first 5 ingredients.  In small bowl, beat honey,
milk, oil and egg until blended; stir into flour mixture just until flour
is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Fold in apples.
3.  Spoon batter into cups to come almost to the top of each cup.  Bake 25
minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean.
Immediately remove muffins from pan; serve warm or cool on wire rack. Makes
12 muffins.  About 155 calories each. NOTES
: I always leave the apples unpeeled but peel if you wish.  You may also
bake this as a quickbread in which case, use a standard loaf pan and bake
for 50-60 minutes at 350-375 degrees. Pans made from ceramic, glass, black,
dark or polished metals exhibit different baking characteristics. Baking
times and temperatures should be adjusted accordingly.
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