Please welcome our guest, Amanda Flower!!
Amanda is the author of the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series, which are set in Ohio’s Amish Country. Her newest novel is A Plain Scandal and fictionalizes the 2011 true crime Amish haircutting scandal. She also writes mysteries as Isabella Alan for NAL/Penguin and children’s mysteries under her own name for Zondervan/HarperCollins. Amanda is an academic librarian for a small college near Cleveland.
Amish Blueberry Cake
I not only
chose Amish Blueberry Cake because of my personal skill level but because it
demonstrates one of the keys to Amish baking and cooking: simplicity. The Amish
use simple and accessible ingredients in their food. Amish blueberry cake is no
exception. Everything an Amish cook needs for the recipe can be found in her
kitchen with the addition of seasonal fresh blueberries picked from her garden
or received from a neighbor. Make this recipe for your family, and you are sure
to have a treat that both children and adults will just plain love. Enjoy!
Amish Blueberry Cake
½ cup
softened butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups
all-purpose
3 teaspoons
baking soda
½ teaspoon
salt
1 cup milk
1 cup
blueberries
Cream sugar
and butter. Add eggs. Add some of the four sifted with salt and baking soda, blend slowly adding milk and the rest of the flour. Add washed blueberries to batter.
Pour in a 9x12 baking pan and bake at 325F for 45 minutes.
Let cool, cut to
size, and enjoy!
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