Blueberry Muffins - American Recipe

Blueberry Muffins

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Mixing-bowl, Tablespoon, 2 small bowls, Dover beater, Colander, Sifter, Muffin-pans

Homemade blueberry muffins — a 1920s kitchen staple.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ cup blueberries
• 1¼ cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking-powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup milk

Method

1. Cream — the butter in a mixing-bowl.
2. Add — the sugar, and "cream" again.
3. Beat — the egg in a small bowl, and stir one-half of it only (about 2 tablespoons) into the butter and sugar.
4. Wash — the berries in a colander, let the water drain off, then put them into a small bowl and sift ¼ cup of flour over them, mixing well.
5. Mix — the rest of the flour with the baking-powder and salt in a sifter, and sift it, a little at a time and alternately with the milk, into the butter-sugar-egg mixture, and beat thoroughly.
6. Stir — the berries into the batter.
7. Butter — the muffin-pans, fill them two-thirds full of the batter, and bake in a moderate oven twenty to thirty minutes, or until lightly browned.

Tags: milk, butter, egg, flour, sugar, blueberry · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Small raisins or dried currants may be used instead of the blueberries, if desired.