National Blueberry Muffin Day

Today is National Blueberry Muffin Day!

We, at Linderhof, of course, had to participate!

Blueberries are a thing of the past on our part of the prairie

They're an earlier June fruit --

By almost mid July they're gone

Replaced by blackberries -- both tame and wild!

To celebrate

We made blueberry muffins for breakfast

If we eat inside, we always breakfast in the breakfast room

Unless we have company

 And always use the Johnson Brothers Indies

It is after all our breakfast china

The "blue ish" basket which we use for breakfast breads

is a bit darker than the linen napkin -- but they are in the same "family"

And that hue of blue goes well with the blue of the Indies

I use my grandmother's muffin pans

So our muffins are never large!

They're "normal" size

Which means that you can eat two!!!

I tried a new recipe.

I've one that I've used for years and years

And thought was really good.

But I'll always try a new recipe

And this one titled

"The Best Blueberry Muffins"

had me intrigued

For often, anything titled "Best" is far from!

This, however, truly is "The Best"

And this will be my "go to" blueberry muffin from now on.

It came from a little cookbook

titled

Muffins

by Elizabeth Alston

Obviously, there are only muffin recipes in it

And over the years I've made a few

But this blueberry one

This really is the BEST blueberry muffin I've ever baked!

THE BEST BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

1/2 c. (1 stick) butter at room temperature

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 t. vanilla

2 t. baking powder

1/4 t. salt

2 1/2 cups blueberries (mash 1/2 cup with a fork)

2 cups flour

1/2 c. milk

1 T. sugar mixed with 1/4 t. nutmeg

Heat oven to 375.    Grease 12 regular muffin cups (including the area between each cup) or use baking cups.

In a medium size bowl, beat butter until creamy.    Beat in the sugar until pale and fluffy.    Beat in the eggs, one at a time.    Beat in vanilla, baking powder and salt.

Mix mashed berries into the batter.

Fold in half the flour with a spatula, then half the milk.    Add the remaining flour and milk.    Fold in remaining blueberries.    Scoop batter into muffin cups.   Sprinkle with nutmeg sugar.

Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.    Let muffins cool at least 30 minutes in the pan before removing.   (This I did not do -- we ate them warm!)