Happy Birthday Dessert for Amelia Earhart @MaddieDayAuthor #Giveaway

MADDIE DAY here, with a delicious summer dessert to celebrate Amelia Earhart's birthday yesterday! I also have some exciting news that includes Amelia's fictional self.

In A Case for the Ladies, in which Amelia is a co-sleuth with lady PI Dot Henderson, it's summer in 1926, and the blueberries are ripe. This galette recipe, an easy kind of fruit pie, might well have been brought down by French-Canadians from Quebec. 

Since my backyard blueberries are also ripe, a galette seemed like a perfect birthday dessert for Amelia.

Blueberry Galette

Adapted from Broma Bakery

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup cold butter, cut into cubes

2 – 3 tablespoons ice cold vodka or water

1 egg, for egg wash

coarse sugar

4 cups blueberries

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 Tablespoons lemon juice

2 Tablespoons corn starch

pinch salt

Directions

Place the flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor. Add the cold butter to the food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles wet sand and no large chunks of butter remain.

Add in the vodka (or water), one tablespoon at a time. If your dough has come together, don’t add any more vodka. You want just enough to bind the dough into a ball.

Turn the dough out of the food processor and form into a flat oval disk and wrap in plastic wrap. Place in fridge for at least 30 minutes, but up to 3 days.

Once your dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 375°F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.

Sprinkle a work surface with flour. Roll your dough out into a 12-inch circle. 

Place dough onto prepared baking tray. Place a 9-inch cake pan in the center of the circle and press down ever so slightly. This will create an indentation to show exactly how far out to place your filling!

In a large bowl combine the blueberries, sugar, lemon juice, salt and cornstarch. Stir to coat the berries evenly.

Place the blueberry mixture in the center of the pie crust into an even layer. Lift the edges of the pie dough in towards the center, folding every 3-4 inches as you go around.

Mix egg with 1 tablespoon water and brush over crust. Top with coarse sugar if desired. 

Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the blueberry filling is bubbling and the crust is golden brown.

 Serve with vanilla ice cream and a good book!

Readers: What's your favorite fruit dessert? Your favorite historical period to read about? I'll send one lucky commenter a signed copy of A Case for the Ladies! Be sure to include your email address. 

What about the exciting news, you ask? Well, Amelia and Dot star in my newest short story, "With a Little Help." The story, which includes alert and observant eleven year-old Josie Page in 1926 Boston, is out in a new anthology called Double Crossing Van Dine, from Crippen & Landru.

I hope you love my story. I'm honored to be included with all the other ones written by acclaimed short story masters. 

Crippen & Landru also published A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries, my collection of Rose Carroll short stories. If you preorder Double Crossing Van Dine, you can buy the Quaker Midwife collection for half price!

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 Murder at the Rusty Anchor,

 A Case for the Ladies,

and Deep Fried Death, #12 in the Country Store Mysteries.

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.