katie's subLIME syrupy muffins

for some reason, limes make me think of snow.
i think it's either the scene from Little Women where Amy's teacher throws he limes out into the snow, or perhaps it's because i equate limes with ice in the summer, all swished in a glass?

anyway, when i woke up this morning and found our backyard resembling the inside of a magic wardrobe with frosted tables and chairs and a crunchy white lawn (alas, no snow... or lions... this far north), i remembered that two days ago i had driven past our neighbour-up-the-road, and plucked a bag of *free limes* out of the cardboard box which was perched beside their letter box. how's *that* then, for love going around the universe? pretty awesome.

so i bribed Bulldog (who has the patience for such things) to grate zest and squeeze citrus, and together we made these subLIME (yeah, i'm so punny) syrupy muffins:
swish together in a bowl:
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt grated zest of five limes
add, previously mixed:
100g melted butter
a happy egg
1 cup milk
stir briefly to just mix. spoon into 12 muffin pans, place a wee slice of lime on top of each muffin. bake 210 celsius on fan bake for 14 minutes (in my oven).while the muffins are cooking, heat and stir juice of the limes and 3/4 cup sugar until dissolved. the instant the muffins come out of the oven, drench in syrup. cool, share out evenly between gannets with a spoonful of tarty yoghurt on the side. lick the rest of the lime syrup off the plate while no one's looking.