Family heirlooms are my most prized possessions. Lovely and worn pieces handed down from my husband’s family as well as my own make their place in my home. From my Daddy’s watch, my Grandmother’s handwritten recipes, to my husband’s great-great Grandparent’s table, threads of their lives are now intricately woven into the fabric of our days.
In our fast-paced world, it’s a bit hard to imagine the items that will one day become heirlooms from my life. There are a few treasures though that should easily withstand time with just a bit of love and care – the table my husband made with his own hands for our 10th wedding anniversary, jewelry he’s given me throughout our marriage, our family Bible I was given on our wedding day, and pewter pieces I have been given from my mother and mother-in-law immediately come to mind.
When the lovely people from Crosby & Taylor contacted me about hosting a giveaway for pewter measuring spoons, I felt that their heart shone through as I read their history and values. But when I received their package and opened it, I was absolutely blown away. I could see the love and passion for their craft in every single inch.
As I’ve found every possible reason to be in my kitchen cooking since I received my measuring spoons, I’ve been thinking about how my son will one day remember our measuring out vanilla for his favorite chocolate chip waffles or these lemon poppy seed muffins as he reaches for these spoons with his own children.
Copyright © Add a Pinch, LLC. All Rights Reserved.A perfect muffin for a shower, brunch, tea, or anytime!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup milk
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 1/4 powdered sugar
- juice of 1 lemon
- lemon zest
Instructions
http://addapinch.com/cooking/2011/04/14/lemon-poppy-seed-muffins-pewter-measuring-spoons-giveaway/
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- Prepare pans with muffin or cupcake liners.
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Mix in lemon zest until well-combined.
- Add in flour, eggs, vanilla, milk and lemon juice.
- Combine well.
- Stir in poppy seeds.
- Fill each place in muffin pan to 3/4 full.
- Bake until golden brown and cake tester comes out clean when inserted into middle of each muffin, approximately 12 minutes for mini muffins and 30 minutes for full sized muffins.
- Allow to cool.
- Mix together powdered sugar, lemon juice, and zest together until it reaches a smooth consistency.
- Drizzle over muffins and serve.
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About the Recipe
Lemon poppy seed muffins topped with a simple lemon sugar glaze are just perfect for a brunch, tea, or to serve your family for breakfast even. The burst of the lemon combined with the slight crunch of the tiny poppy seeds make this lemon poppy seed muffin a favorite whenever you serve them. These muffins have a tender, delicate crumb and are best cooked in cupcake liners for ease in eating.
It’s hard not to gobble up more than a one of these sweet little muffins. Remember the saying of you can’t eat just one? Well, it certainly applies to these lemon poppy seed muffins!
About the Giveaway
Crosby & Taylor provided me with a set ofand a set of heart to heart measuring spoons to giveaway to one lucky Add a Pinch reader. Entries close April 21st at 11:59 PM Eastern and the winner will be announced sometime on April 22nd. Giveaway is open to US residents. Here’s how you enter.
- Leave one comment on this post about your favorite heirloom.
If you’d like additional entries, you can do any of the following and just leave a comment letting me know.
Congratulations to comment #91, Leighanne. I’ve contacted you via email to make arrangements for you to receive your gorgeous measuring spoons!
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Crosby & Taylor provided me with a set of measuring spoons as well as another set to giveaway to a reader. All opinions are my own.
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My favorite heirloom is a collection of cookbooks my grandmother has given me. They came from her own collection and also her mother’s and her mother in law’s collection.
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My most treasured heirlooms are the quilts my grandmothers made. I was lucky enough to record the story of each them while my maternal grandmother was still alive so along with the actual objects, I have the oral history to go with them – a real treasure!
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My favorite heirloom is a kugelhopf pan from my grandma and her set of china. I absolutely adore those Crosby & Taylor measuring spoons. Fantastic!
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These are gorgeous! I don’t know that we have many heirlooms. One item that is near and dear to my heart is my very first stuffed animal. I still have it. It’s worn and old but only because it was loved so much!
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My favorite heirlooms are the gorgeous handmade quilts my grandmother made me. I helped by picking out the fabrics when I was four!
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I adore all of my old cookbooks.
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I honestly don’t think I have any. My husband has a wooden puzzle that was made for him by his father. It is very special to him.
My most cherished heirloom is my grandmother’s china and silver. She cherished it and gave it to me when she passed away and I cherish it and make sure that it is with me every time I move somewhere new.
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Recently, my mom began cleaning out her attic and came across several pyrex and tupperware bowls from my grandmother. They are now some of the favorites in my cookware collection!
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Those measuring spoons are almost too pretty to use for cooking, but I’m sure I could work past that. My favorite heirloom is a doll, Julianne, whom I plan to give to my daughter when she gets a little older.
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My favorite heirloom is my engagement ring diamond. It belonged to my husband’s grandmother (it was part of her earing). I love that I wear something so special every day.
To be honest, I don’t have any heirlooms. My dad’s side is an immigrant family from Cuba and my mom’s side is poor Irish Americans.
One day I’d like to inherit all of my dad’s pictures, though!
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I love lemon poppyseed anything, this looks so good with the glaze!
I got a notebook with handwritten recipes from my mom’s teenager years. I am trying some of the recipes this weekend and my goal is to make them all
I have a question regarding this giveaway: I am not a US resident but I do have a US shipping address. Can I participate in this giveaway or not? I always ask myself this question and often refrain from participating in blog giveaways.
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My favorite heirloom is an old spoon that my grandmother used with all of her cooking. I call it her mashed potato spoon because that is what I remember her using it most with. I love sticking it in a dish as a serving utensil, as it reminds me of my grandmother making her wonderful food!
I love this post – I feel so much the same way about family heirlooms. I have quite a few special items that have been passed down, but the ones I think of first are the 50′s diner table set of my grandparent’s and some dishes of my husband’s grandma. These pewter measuring spoons are beautiful!!
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My favorite heirloom is a ring from my grandmother. I will cherish it forever! What a great giveaway Robyn!
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Not so much an heirloom, but the wooden stool with the heart cutout my grandfather made for me as a child so I could reach the counter and help cook. It makes me think of him every day.
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I have a blanket my great-grandmother knitted. It’s huge and practically felted, and thick and heavy, but I love it. I don’t have any actual memories of her, but I remember loving her, if that makes any sense.
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I don’t have any family heirlooms yet… Can I still be in the drawing? Please!
My favorite heIrloom is a ball of silk thread that was my great grandma’s. It came to the US from England. I love these spoons!
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I MUST have those. I seriously covet them. That being said.. I dont think I really have an heirloom pieces!
You know I don’t really have any family heirlooms. I have my dads favorite mechanical pencil (he was a draftsman) but other than that I don’t think we have anything passed down.
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My most cherished heirloom would have to be my grandmother’s pearls. My grandfather gave them to her on their wedding day, and I wore them on our wedding day.
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I guess the heirloom that’s extra special to me is either the gorgeous cedar hope chest from my Grandaddy that was also my mother’s, or the very vintage Virgin Mary wall hanging which I got from my Grandpa. My brother has a matching piece of Jesus, and though I love the hanging, I’m considering reuniting them because I’d hate for them not to be together in a couple of generations since they’re a set.
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Oh those are so pretty! My mom recently gave me some items from my Grandmas kitchen. They are not “heirlooms” in the traditional sort of way – really just simple things. But they remind me of her!
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My heirlooms are some of my recipes.
These are the coolest measuring spoons! I’d love to win.
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I have my aunt’s sewing machine and I can almost feel her presence when I sew with it. I love having it and it reminds me of pleasant times when I was a little girl. I’m not sure if it’s really an heirloom, but it’s very old and holds nice memories.
Beautiful muffins!
Those spoons are wonderful! Love them!!!
My favorite heirlooms are an old tin cup from my great grandmother (who at this point would be 135), a beautiful antique diamon ring from her daughter…my grandmother who is still rocking at 99 and from my Irish great grandmother a 100 year old cast iron frying pan. 2 are old and worn, and 1 sparkles like it’s new and I cherish them all!!
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Just one…sigh ; ) I have to say my grandmother’s dishes are pretty high on the list.
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My favorite heirloom is my mother’s silver serving spoons and utensils.
My Grandmother made me an green and cream afghan when I was in middle school. Though she hasn’t been with us in a number of years now. When ever I need her I can wrap myself up in it and feel like she is still with me. My kids know it is special too, and are very careful with it when I let them use it.
My favorite heirloom is a set of silverplate that was my great-grandmother’s. We use it everyday!
I am fortunate to have many special heirlooms but I truly treasure the hand carved springerle molds from Germany that were my grandmothers and she taught me how to make the best Springerle cookies. I am a family hero every Christmas.
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I have my grandma’s hand written cookbook. It has ripped pages, lots of stains, and lots of love and memories!
My favorite heirloom is a pewter pitcher and large pewter salad bowl.
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My favorite heirloom is my Mother’s 1940 camera because it reminds me of all the pictures that she took of my brother and myself all those years ago. Now, that she is no longer with us, it is even more of a treasure.
My Grandpa had a set of Fiestaware that I love. I also have several quilts from my grandma. Precious to me!
My favorite heirloom is not cooking-related at all; it is a set of prop and wings that my dad gave me to wear after completing my freshman year at the Air Force Academy; they happened to be the same set that he wore as a student there.
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My favorite heirloom is a set of small vases my parents brought back from China and eventually passed on to me.
My favorite heirloom I have is a gold cross necklace given to me at birth.
The measuring spoons are lovely!
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Love this giveaway & those muffins too! My favorite heirloom is some jewelery from my grandma.
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I haven’t collected many heirlooms as of yet, but I do have a set of kitchen towels that my husbands grandmother stitched.
Among my favorite kitchen heirlooms are my grandmother’s teacups and a dutch oven that she used all the time.
LOVE these measuring spoons.
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My favorite heirloom is a set of handwritten recipes from my grandmother that my mom gave me when I moved out.
I have a ring my mom gave me!
My two favorite heirlooms is a handmade quilt that was made by my grandmother and great-grandmother and an old plum pudding basin from Ireland. Those measuring spoons are so adorable. I would love to have a set for my kitchen.
my handmade table that I remember all my childhood meal memories being made around & now it sits in my dining room for my kiddos!
My most cherished heirloom is the engagement part to my wedding ring. The ring belonged to my husband’s great-grandmother. Most of my husband’s family is gone, so it is precious to have a piece of the past to hold on to.
My favorite heirloom is my grandmother’s Better Homes and Gardens cookbook ~ a 3-inch 3-ring binder with a complete set of recipe cards – I love reading the helpful hints & tips provided to a woman in the 40s-50s.
This is a beautiful post, Robin!!
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Great giveaway, Robyn, and these muffins look absolutely perfect and delicious! Let’s see, my favorite heirloom would have to be my grandmother’s mink coat. I’ll probably never have an excuse to wear it, but it’s priceless to me nonetheless!
I wanted to say great recipe first off. And second off I guess I better enter this contest or my wife won’t let me live it down! I’m not sure this is an heirloom, but my mom gave me a journal when I went off to college with family recipes in it. My wife and I have added our favorites to it for the last 11 years. It may look like just an old journal, but we really treasure it.
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This is a gorgeous giveaway! And the muffins look yummy.
I made lemon muffins this weekend, with dried cranberries. Delicious!
Well, it’s not “mine” (yet?) but my favorite family heirloom would actually be my grandfather’s communist ticket. He was a member of the Soviet communist party (he wasn’t evil, he lived in a village in Eastern Europe and was just idealistic…it’s not his fault the party was corrupt
) and now my mother owns has ticket, kinda like a party ID (she actually was a political dissident against the communists!). Someday my brother or I will keep it and preserve a piece of family history that is significant to my mother’s past and our heritage.
This is a beautifully written story, Robyn. These pewter spoons are equally as lovely! I am really sentimental, so many things are special to me whether others would consider them heirlooms or not. I do treasure items from the past that relate to the kitchen, family, and home the most it seems. If I won these spoons from Crosby & Taylor, they would definitely become a part of the special collection of treasures I’d pass down. Thanks for the opportunity!
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I have some beautiful glass serving dishes that were my great aunts, and they are beautiful.
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Those are just the cutest spoons! My sister-in-law had a set with a cat theme and I’ve been trying to find out where to get similar ones. Now I know!
My favorite heirloom would have been the jewelry my mom passed on to me on my wedding day. Which I no longer have now. {sniff}
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These kind folks are from Oregon, where I used to live. How I wish I could have picked up a set of spoons then!
We’re immigrants to this country, so my parents arrived with nothing but the clothes on their back. I suppose that means we get to “start” our own heirloom?
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My great-grandmother Eliza’s wedding ring. She is who I got my middle name from and it is so beautiful and dainty. She had tiny fingers!
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My parents have my great-grandma’s piano, which will one day come to me. I got to play it once for her.
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My favorite heirloom is my great-grandmother’s wedding ring
My favorite heirloom is a tray of my grandmother’s. It served a lot of happy family meals!
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I don’t have many heirlooms but I d have one that I cherish – a beautiful tablecloth from my great aunt.
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hm, not sure if i have any heirlooms…unless memories count as non-material heirlooms? being a packrat, i love the idea of heirlooms though!