Categories: Muffins
      Yield: 8 servings
 
    1/2 c  Finely snipped apricots
    1/3 c  Unsweetened apple juice
      1 c  Whole wheat flour
      2 ts Baking powder
    1/4 ts Baking soda
    1/4 ts Ground cardamom or ginger
    1/3 c  Chopped walnuts
      3 tb Vegetable oil
      1 tb Sugar
      1    Egg
 
  Soak the apricots in the apple juice for 10 minutes.  Combine the flour,
  baking powder, baking soda, spice and walnuts in a bowl.  Beat together the
  oil, sugar, and egg.  Add the apricots, with the juice and egg mixture to
  the flour.
  
  Mix just until all the ingredients are blended.  Spoon into oiled muffin
  tins or (my choice) paper muffin cups (sprayed with non-stick spray).  Fill
  cups 3/4 full.  Bake in 350 F oven for 10 to 15 minutes, or until golden
  brown.
  
  1 muffin - 182 calories, 1 bread exchange, 1/2 fruit, 2 fat 22 grams
  carbohydrate, 4 grams protein, 10 grams fat 97 mg sodium, 166 mg potassium,
  34 mg cholesterol
  
  Source:  Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986 Shared
  but not yet tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93.
  
  Suggestions:  Use raisins to test the recipe if you do not have apricots.
  Leave out walnuts to reduce the fat and use 2 egg whites instead of the
  whole egg to reduce cholesterol if desired.