Here's a great Muffin recipe for lowering Cholesterol and Triglycerides.

APPLE CINNAMON MIRACLE MUFFINS(Eat three per day to lower cholesterol.)

2¼ cups oat bran cereal
½ cup skim milk
¼ cup brown sugar ¾ cup frozen apple juice concentrate
1¼ teaspoons cinnamon
2 Tbl. vegetable oil
1 Tbl. baking powder
2 egg whites
½ cup raisins 1 medium apple, cored and chopped

Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix the milk, apple juice concentrate, egg whites and oil in a bowl or blender. Add to the dry ingredients and mix. Add the chopped apple.

Line muffin pans with paper baking cups and fill with batter. Bake in a 425º F oven for 17 minutes. Makes 12 muffins. After cooling, store in refrigerator.


NOTES:

*Be sure to buy Oat Bran Hot Cereal, not oatmeal. I think Quaker is the best. Their oat bran is stocked near their oatmeal. It comes in a 16 ounce box. You’ll need two boxes to make a double batch of muffins.
*Don’t add water to the apple juice concentrate. Use it straight from the can.
*Since I’m too lazy to chop my apples, I use a tool that cores and divides the apple into eight pieces and put the pieces in the blender with the wet ingredients. Four short blasts on “chop” will do the job.
*Fill the baking cups with the batter. Muffins will expand but will not run over so fill the cups to the top. Use all the batter to make twelve muffins.
*Baking time is critical. Use a timer and set it for exactly 17 minutes. When the timer rings, use a toothpick to test doneness. The toothpick should come out of the muffin just slightly tacky to the touch, not wet or dry. If you overbake by even a minute or two, you’ll have dry muffins.
*One batch of muffins uses 6 oz. of apple juice concentrate. Since the concentrate comes in 12 oz. cans, I make two batches of muffins at a time. By the time the first batch is finished baking, you will have the second batch ready to put in the oven. I can make two batches from start to finish, including clean up, in one hour.

This recipe came from The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure by Robert E. Kowalski. This book contains many more muffin recipes, using oat bran.

Thanks for sharing this, Linda.

Fortunately my cholesterol is on the low side, but my dad's is through the roof! I'm going to make some just for him because he really is trying to eat right and this and other health problems.

I'm also going to try to find the book that you mentioned...sounds like something he could use.