Dried Fruit Muffins - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups pastry flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil or 1/4 cup melted butter
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups finely chopped fresh fruit or 1 1/2 cups finely chopped dried fruit

Preparation

Preheat your oven to 425\u00b0F. Lightly grease the cups of a standard 12-cup muffin pan. Or line the cups with papers, and grease the papers.
Blend together the dry ingredients, add chopped fruit and stir.
Beat the liquid ingredients together - milk, oil or butter, eggs, and vanilla - until light.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Take a fork or wire whisk and blend the two briefly - about 20 seconds should do it.
Fill the cups of the muffin pan two-thirds to three-quarters full. Sprinkle with sparkling white sugar, if desired.
Bake the muffins for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of one of the center muffins comes out clean. Remove them from the oven, and as soon as you can handle them turn them out of the pan onto a rack to cool.