This recipe is adapted from a King Arthur Flour recipe.
My adaptations: I reduced the amount of sugar (why add all that when you are putting in so much molasses?!) I added lots of freshly grated ginger instead of crystallized ginger (more zing, less diabetes), and used a combination of flours I had in the house. The cornmeal added a really nice texture. Instead of buttermilk (who has that lying around?) I used kefir (though I suppose one could make a similar argument). You could also use plain yogurt :)
Ingredients
2 cups (241g) flour. I used about 3/4 C white flour, then a mix of cornmeal, brown rice, buckwheat and potato in decreasing order to make up the rest of the 2 C.
2 T sugar (I think you could eliminate this completely. I will be experimenting with this)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon each cloves and nutmeg* (I opened a cardamom pod and crushed the seeds inside instead of nutmeg, because, for some reason, I don’t like nutmeg)
8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, melted (yep, all of it. don’t skimp.)
3/4 cup (255g) standard molasses (not blackstrap) (uh why? I used blackstrap. Worked fine -E.)
1/4 cup (57g) water or brewed/cooled coffee (I used water)
1 large egg (I never reliably have eggs around. I use a chia- or flax-egg.)
1 cup (227g) buttermilk (I used kefir, you could also use yogurt thinned with some water)
1/2 cup (92g) diced crystallized ginger, optional (I used 2 T freshly grated ginger root)
1) preheat the oven to 350F and mix the dry ingredients (flour to cloves) in a bowl
2) melt the butter in a saucepan, adde the molasses and grated ginger
3) add 1 to 2, mix to moisten
4) whisk the egg into the buttermilk variant of your choice, then add to the bowl, mix all together.
5) I put a dollop into 4 muffin cups, and pour the rest into a pre-buttered loaf pan. Put all into 350F oven.
6) Bake the muffins for 15 min (poke with a skewer to make sure they are done - skewer will come out clean)
7) Turn and then bake the loaf 15 minutes more, and poke the center with a skewer to see if it’s done.. Add time in 5 minute increments until the skewer comes out clean..
