Blueberries are yummy, good for you, easy to pick, and easy to grow. I love picking blueberries, and now I have three mature bushes and several younger ones. But I don't get enough to supply me for the winter, so every summer toward the end of July I head north a mile to a local farm and pick buckets worth. My bucket is on a ribbon and hangs around my neck, so I can pick two-handed.
I freeze them in zip lock bags and make blueberry muffins and pancakes all year long. Blueberry Grunt is an easy stovetop dessert you can make when you don't want to turn on the oven.
Blueberry
Grunt
Ingredients
4
cups blueberries (frozen or fresh)
½ cup sugar
½
cup water
1
tablespoon cornstarch mixed in 2 tablespoons cold water
1
teaspoon lemon juice
1
tsp cinnamon
2
cups flour
¼
cup sugar
2
teaspoons baking powder
½
teaspoon salt
2
tablespoons butter
1
cup milk
Instructions
In
a cast iron skillet, combine the berries, sugar, and water.
Bring to
a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Add the cornstarch mix and stir
for one minute. Remove from heat, add the cinnamon and lemon juice,
and set aside.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Cut in the butter then add the milk and combine until just mixed. Do not over mix.
Roll
flour mixture into balls and drop them onto the berry mixture.
Place
the pan on medium heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Do not lift
the lid. The biscuit topping is steaming itself in the berry juices.
Serve
warm with heavy cream or ice cream.
Enjoy!
Readers: Do you ever make fruit grunts or cobbler? What's your favorite way to eat blueberries? I'll send one of you the Cozy Capers Book group mystery of your choice - they take place on Cape Cod, a great place for wild blueberries.
My next book out is my alter-ego's Taken Too Soon, the sixth Quaker Midwife (written by Edith Maxwell), up for preorder now!Readers: Do you ever make fruit grunts or cobbler? What's your favorite way to eat blueberries? I'll send one of you the Cozy Capers Book group mystery of your choice - they take place on Cape Cod, a great place for wild blueberries.
In this book, releasing September 8, midwife Rose Carroll travels to Cape Cod with her freshly minted husband on a modest honeymoon - which turns into an investigation into the murder of her aunt's ward.
Following on its coattails is Candy Slain Murder, the eighth Country Store mystery - also up for preorder. You guessed it, the story takes place at Christmas, with Robbie Jordan back in South Lick, Indiana. She digs into the mysterious skeleton of a woman who went missing a decade earlier, and then the woman's twin's murder nearly right in front of Robbie's eyes.
Isn't that a fun cover! You'll be hearing more here about the recipes in the back.
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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 north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.
