2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp grated lemon rind
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 TBSP baking powder
2/3 cup milk
1 tsp salt
¼ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2 TBSP sugar
1 med. sized tart apple, pared, quartered, cored and diced
Recipe
Preheat 425*.
1. Mix flour, the ½ cup sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl with a wire whip. Cut in butter or margarine with a pastry blender (or your fingers) until mixture is crumbly. Measure out ½ cup of flour-butter mixture into a small bowl for topping. Stir apple and 1 tsp of the lemon rind into mixture in large bowl.
2. Beat egg in a small bowl, stir in milk. Add all at once to apple mixture; stir lightly until just moist, (batter will be lumpy.) Spoon into 12 greased muffin cups, 2/3 full.
3.Blend reserved crumb mixture with remaining lemon rind, walnuts and 2 TBSP sugar; sprinkle over batter in each cup.
4. Bake 20 minutes, or until golden and tops spring back when pressed with fingertips.