My
grandmother's blueberry muffin recipe card reads "Wonderful Blueberry
Muffins" and they are wonderful.
Every time I eat one of Grammy’s muffins, the happy memories they bring flood back. Nearly every Sunday during the summer, my Grammy
would get up early and bake blueberry muffins for her children and
grandchildren. Everyone gathered at my
Gram’s house on Sunday mornings for breakfast and togetherness. My cousins and I looked forward to those
Sunday breakfast blueberry muffins. My
grandmother was a mix (she no longer cooks or bakes) of scratch cooking and
convenience cooking. She was known for
her three standard homemade treats - banana bread, blond brownies, and
blueberry muffins. Her two semi-homemade
treats were a box chocolate sheet cake for special occasions topping it with a
Crisco based vanilla frosting that I loved and strawberry banana Jello in a
Pyrex dish with a can of fruit cocktail or mandarin oranges mixed in which was a
much anticipated picnic standard. On
Thanksgiving and Christmas she must have been plain tired out as she reheated
Mrs. Smith pre-made frozen apple pies and served it with Coolwhip topping. Her cooking repertoire included the whole
range of cooking possibilities and she served her family in the best way she
could and she served it up with a whole lot of love.
Grammy's Wonderful Blueberry Muffins
Makes
about 1 dozen
2 cups
flour
3
teaspoons baking powder
1
teaspoon salt scant
¼ cup
sugar
1 cup
milk
1/3 cup
Crisco melted is in Grammy’s recipe but I use canola oil or melted butter
1 ½ cups
or 1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries – if frozen do not defrost
Preheat
oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix
flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, together in a large bowl.
Add 1
beaten eggs, milk, and oil and mix with wooden spoon until just combined.
Add blueberries
and mix lightly.
Spoon the
batter into a greased or lined muffin tin.
Bake for
20-25 minutes.
Remove
from oven and cool on cooling rack.
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