"it Still Feels Like Winter" Vegan Oatmeal Muffins

"it Still Feels Like Winter" Vegan Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients:
oats
nuts, walnuts, english
water, bottled, generic
vinegar, cider
applesauce, canned, unsweetened, without added ascorbic acid (includes usda commodity)
sugars, brown
margarine, regular, 80% fat, composite, stick, without salt
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
leavening agents, baking soda
raisins, seeded

Directions:
Put the water, vinegar and salt in a blender.
Add 1/4 cup of the walnuts (reserve the other 1/4 cup to add to the batter later).
Blend this mixture on high for about a minute.
This is your nice, slightly nutty tasting "buttermilk" for your muffins.
Pour your walnut "milk" into a large bowl.
Add the oats and stir to blend.
Let set about 10 minutes.
Add the applesauce, brown sugar and margarine to the oatmeal mixture.
Mix well.
In a medium sized bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and baking powder together.
Add these dry ingredients to the wet oatmeal mixture.
Mix until well blended.
Stir in the raisins and remaining walnuts.
Spoon mixture into muffin tins.
Bake at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes.
Cool and Serve!