Name: Black-Pepper Corn Muffins with Herb Butter
Ingredients: -JUDI M. PHELPS; 1 1/2 c All-purpose flour; unsifted; 1/2 c Yellow cornmeal; 2 ts Baking powder; 1 ts Ground coriander; 1/2 ts Cracked black pepper; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 1/4 c Buttermilk; 2 lg Eggs; 2 tb Olive oil; 2 tb Unsalted butter; melted and cooled; 1/2 c Unsalted butter; softened; 1 tb Mixed fresh herbs; minced; 1/8 ts Lemon zest; grated; 1/8 ts Salt; 1/8 ts Pepper

It is not uncommon for Christians to claim that the saints of the Old Testament period experienced God’s Spirit in a fundamentally different manner from that of New Testament believers or modern Christians. Many have relied on specific idioms of the Old Testament to argue that the Holy Spirit only came upon people in the Old Testament but into people in the New Testament. Thus, the Holy Spirit was only bestowed temporarily, and then externally, to Old Testament believers as opposed to the permanent indwelling of the early church. Such preaching and teaching drives a wedge between the Testaments, placing too much emphasis on disunity rather than on mutual interdependence between the Old and New. This is an inadequate and incomplete understanding of the role of the Spirit in the Old Testament. Though the Spirit of God sometimes comes upon individuals in the Old Testament to empower for specific (and temporary) tasks, there can be no doubt that His role is also more extensive. He has an indwelling and transforming presence in the Old Testament believers as well and is described as the animating feature that effects spiritual renewal.

Bill Arnold

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Muffins, Holiday, Net robin	8	Muffins

INGREDIENTS

		-JUDI M. PHELPS
1 1/2	c	All-purpose flour; unsifted
1/2	c	Yellow cornmeal
2	ts	Baking powder
1	ts	Ground coriander
1/2	ts	Cracked black pepper
1/2	ts	Salt
1 1/4	c	Buttermilk
2	lg	Eggs
2	tb	Olive oil
2	tb	Unsalted butter; melted and cooled
1/2	c	Unsalted butter; softened
1	tb	Mixed fresh herbs; minced
1/8	ts	Lemon zest; grated
1/8	ts	Salt
1/8	ts	Pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

HERB BUTTER
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.  Grease 8-cup (2-1/2-inch diameter)
muffin pan.  Set aside.
In medium bowl, mix flour, cornmeal, baking powder, coriander,
pepper, and salt.  In glass measure, whisk milk, eggs, oil, and
butter until blended. Pour into flour mixture; with wooden spoon,
stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.  (Do not overmix.)
Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan, dividing evenly. Bake 18 to 20
minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
Meanwhile, make Herb Butter:  In bowl mix ingredients until blended.
Remove muffins from pan; cool slightly on rack.  Serve with Herb
Butter.
Makes 8 servings.  Per serving: 310 calories, 6 g protein, 27 g
carbohydrate, 20 g fat, 93 mg cholesterol, 333 mg sodium. Source:
McCall's, 11/94.
Delphi Net Robin, 12/96
Shared and MM by Judi M. Phelps. jphelps@slip.net, jphelps@best.com,
or juphelps@delphi.com
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #9 by rpearson@snowcrest.net on Mar
13, 1999

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