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[bedlamsbard]

Huh. I think I can tell how stressed I am by how much I read food blogs or cookbooks: the more stressed, the more I obsess over cooking or baking. And I really want to try out canning! My mother cans, and we're buying Many Many Blueberries tomorrow, so I should be able to try it out. Also there's this blueberry syrup recipe in the latest issue of Food + Wine I want to try.

I am also eyeing this book with fascination. Look, I read too much Stirling, okay? I am reasonably reassured by the fact that I do know how to do some things from Ye Olden Times. I can knit, and I can bake -- I even, in theory, know how to bake bread if we run out of yeast by using a sourdough starter, but I kept forgetting to make starter this summer and I am leaving in a month, so. Except I shall never be able to be truly self-sufficient because the idea of owning chickens makes me cry: see, my phobia of birds.

Also, the Family is not yet here, but should be soon, and soon I must begin the epic macaroni and cheese. (I am doubling my usual recipe.) Cake and bread baked; will do muffins either in the evening or the morning, depending on when I wake up.

Anyway, yes, me + stress = food blogs + cookbooks. When I am not as stressed, it's knitting and knitting blogs. FASCINATING.

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[snacky]

Mmmm, blueberry jam is the best jam. Okay, I can only make that and strawberry and peach, but blueberry is the best! I also have a recipe for a great blueberry teacake, if you want.

[bedlamsbard]

Oh, yes! I do love recipes.

[snacky]

Here is the blueberry teacake recipe, off the original recipe card from the 1940s, in my grandmother's handwriting! Don't tell her I shared it, she hates when I give her recipes away. :D

Blueberry Teacake

1/3 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
1 cup blueberries
sugar for sprinkling over top

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8x2 inch pan.

Stir butter to soften. Sift dry ingredients together and mix into butter, until mixture is crumbly. Stir in milk. Beat vigorously for 2 minutes. Add the egg. Beat for 1 minute. Stir in blueberries. Pour into pan and bake for 50 minutes. After removing from oven, while cake is still warm, sprinkle top with sugar.

[bedlamsbard]

Thank you! Mmm, blueberries. (Although the five pound flats were SOLD OUT when we finally made it to the grocery store today. *pouts*)