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Blueberry Recipes - Tasty and Easy

Blueberries are one of the easiest fruit to prepare and serve.

 


Blueberry Buckle (a.k.a, Blueberry Coffee Cake)

Click here for the illustrated directions for this great crumb-topping blueberry coffee cake


Blueberry Cobbler

Ingredients

  • 3 cups blueberries
  • Sweetener; choose one:

    • 1/2 cup sugar or
    • 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup Splenda*, or
    • 1/2 cup Splenda*
  • 2 tsps fresh lemon juice
  • 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 2/3 cup milk (I use fat free, but any type will work)
  • 1 egg, well beaten

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400-degrees.
  2. Grease a large (1-1/2-qt) square baking dish.
  3. Combine blueberries, sugar, and lemon juice in a bowl.
  4. Spoon into the baking dish.
  5. In another bowl combine the flour, salt, and baking powder.
  6. Work the butter until the mixture is in coarse crumbs.
  7. Lightly beat the egg and milk together, stir this into the dry mixture to form a smooth dough.
  8. Spoon portions of this dough over the berries, pressing slightly to cover as much as possible.
  9. Bake 35-40 minutes or until the cobbler is light brown.

Blueberry Pie

See this page: Blueberry pie, recipe and directions and illustrated!


Canning and freezing the blueberries:


*Splenda is the trademark name for sucralose sweeteners.  They are different from other artificial sweeteners like Nutrasweet (tm for aspartame) and SweetNLow (tm)in that Splenda doesn't break down when you cook with it.  It is also considered to be "more natural" since it is a modified form of ordinary sugar. However, even the company that makes Splenda generally doesn't recommend completely substituting sugar with Splenda - a 50-50 mix seems to work best; otherwise both consistency and flavor suffer. But at least you can cut the empty calories almost in half!

Ball home canning kit water bath canner

Home Canning Kits

Features:

  • Everything you need to get started with waterbath canning (fruits,pickles, jams, jellies, salsa, sauces and tomatoes)
  • 21-1/2 qt. enamel water bath canner
  • Funnel, jar lifter, lid lifter, bubble freer spatula
  • Ball Blue Book

This is the same type of standard canner that my grandmother used to make everything from applesauce to jams and jellies to tomato and spaghetti sauce. This complete kit includes everything you need and lasts for years: the canner, jar rack, jar grabber tongs, lid lifting wand, a plastic funnel, labels, bubble freer, and the bible of canning, the Ball Blue Book. It's much cheaper than buying the items separately. You'll never need anything else except jars & lids (and the jars are reusable)! There is also s simple kit with just the canner and rack, and a pressure canner, if your want to do vegetables (other than tomatoes). To see more canners, of different styles, makes and prices, click here!
 


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