Ingredients

• 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

Directions

• 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.