- 25g/1oz bran
- 125ml/4fl oz milk
- 100g/3½oz self-raising flour
- 100g/3½oz wholemeal flour
- 2 tsp fine demerara sugar
- pinch baking powder
- 75g/3oz smoked bacon lardons, cooked until browned
- 1 lemon, zest only
- 1tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 tbsp clear honey
- 75g/3oz butter
- 1 free-range egg
- 100ml/3½fl oz plain yoghurt
- extra butter, to serve
- Soak the bran in the milk for five minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Sift the flours, sugar and baking powder into a bowl. Add the bacon, lemon zest and cinnamon.
- Heat the honey and melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Off the heat, beat in the egg, yoghurt and bran with its milk.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients in the bowl.
- Spoon the batter into muffin cases and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
- Serve with butter.