AboutMonday, March 16, 2009
Blueberrying on Cape Ann - a Recipe from the Cook's Book
Jean, our front desk receptionist, who has been with the Seaward Inn for many, many years, tells the story of a special guest named Mary. Mary loved the Seaward Inn and would always stay for about ( 2 ) weeks. She returned year after year, only varying this routine when original owners, Mr and Mrs Cameron, retired.
Mary was well known to the other guests, Seaward Staff, neighbors and Cameron family because her favorite pastime was to go blueberrying.
Every morning she could be seen with her tin can scouring the bushes for blueberries behind Gullsnest, in the sancturay and neighboring Cameron Cottages. Later, she would bring them to the kitchen where Mrs. Cameron made them into Blueberry muffins.
Every year, Mary would vacation alone but it wasn't long before she was part of the Seaward Inn family. Mary stayed in Gulls Nest and had her own (reserved ) table in the right hand corner of the brick dining room.
Occasionally, we are asked if the blueberries come from the grounds of the Inn by some of our old time guests. In season, they often do. If we had more "Mary's" they always would and recall those little things in life that make a difference!
Blueberry muffins
CREAM:
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
ADD:
2 eggs -Beat until creamy
SIFT TOGETHER AND ADD:
2 cups sifted flour - reserve 1/4 cup flour.
2 cups sifted flour - reserve 1/4 cup flour.
Sprinkle over 1 1/2 cups blueberries.
Stir into batter last.
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
ADD:
1 cup milk -Stir only to dampen flour. Do not over beat. Fill greased and floured muffin tins two-thirds full. Preheat oven and bake at 400 degrees F or 205 C for 15 to 20 minutes.
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
ADD:
1 cup milk -Stir only to dampen flour. Do not over beat. Fill greased and floured muffin tins two-thirds full. Preheat oven and bake at 400 degrees F or 205 C for 15 to 20 minutes.
*A good muffin batter will look lumpy. Most muffin recipes will make a dozen muffins depending on the size of muffin tin
Labels: bed-and-breakfast, cookbook, Inn, New-England, oceanfront accommodations, Recipes, Rockport-Chamber-of-Commerce, vacation
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There is nothing quite like freshly picked blueberries. In the summertime, when I lived in Vermont, we had a special clearing where we would go "blueberrying".
Thank you for the recipe. We will surely be trying it.
Thank you for the recipe. We will surely be trying it.
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