Posted on 07/11/2024 7:32:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL BLUEBERRY MUFFIN DAY
National Blueberry Muffin Day on July 11 gives us a great reason to get up in the morning and celebrate! Americans love their blueberry muffins so much, it's their number 1 favorite muffin flavor. Whether it is for breakfast or a snack, blueberry muffins are melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
#BlueberryMuffinDay
While enjoying a delicious blueberry muffin, consider the powerhouse the blueberry is. This once wild berry became domesticated during the early 1900s thanks to the observations of Elizabeth Coleman White and the research of Dr. Frederick V. Coville. Before their efforts, wild blueberries were never successfully transplanted and raised in any farming operation for personal or commercial production. The only way to enjoy fresh blueberries was to seek them out where they grew naturally.
Today we can enjoy the abundant potassium, vitamin C and B6, and other health benefits of the blueberry much more readily than they did 120 years ago. We bake them into muffins and eat them by the handfuls.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL BLUEBERRY MUFFIN DAY
While celebrating the day, be sure to make a few for co-workers and family, too. It's not a celebration if you don't share. It is America's favorite muffin after all.
If you don't bake, be sure to stop by your favorite bakery and pick up a few. Give them a shout out, too.
Use #BlueberryMuffinDay to share and follow on social media.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL BLUEBERRY MUFFIN DAY
National Day Calendar has not determined the origins of National Blueberry Muffin Day.
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July 11 Celebrated History
1801
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovers with Charles Messier the comet once known as Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes. The discovery is Pon's first. Throughout his career, he discovers 37 comets in all.
1804
Aaron Burr fatally shots Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
1914
Babe Ruth makes his professional baseball debut in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
1960
Harper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird.
1979
Skylab is destroyed as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. It was the first space station deployed by the United States.
July 11 Celebrated Birthdays
John Quincy Adams - 1767
Following in his father's footsteps, John Quincy Adams served as the 6th President of the United States.
Isabel Martin Lewis - 1881
The American astronomer became the first woman assistant astronomer hired by the Naval Observatory.
E.B. White - 1899
The American author and essayist also wrote several popular children's books, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.
Yul Brynner - 1920
The award-winning Russian-American actor is best known for his role in The King and I.
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This is the famous New England Blueberry muffin recipe. Just perfect.
JORDAN MARSH FAMOUS BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
A staple and tradition in the Boston store, just a great muffin.
INGREDIENTS
1⁄2 cup butter 2 cups unsifted flour 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1⁄2 cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder 1⁄2 teaspoon salt 2 1⁄2 cups fresh blueberries (large) 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla 2 tbl sugar (for tops)
DIRECTIONS cream butter and sugar light and fluffy; add eggs, singly, beating after each addition. In a second bowl, combine dry ing. (You can elec/mixer/combine thoroughly at this point so as not to over mix once the wet and dry ingredients are combined). Gradually add dry ing to creame mixture along w/ milk and vanilla. Stir in whole berries gently by hand. Spray pan of 12 muffin baking cups. Fill cups 3/4 full. Sprinkle sugar on top. Bake 375°F 25-30 min. Cool in pan. Run knife at edges of each muffin after several minutes to free it from the pan and cool on wire racks.
Tip: brush baked muffin tops with melted butter and sprinkle with additional sugar. The more sugar the better - it gives the top a nice crunch.
There is a trick to get extra tasty blueberry muffins. The Betty Crocker muffins call for 2/3 cup of water. Instead, drain the blueberry can into the measuring cup, and top it off with water. This gives the muffins much more flavor.
Sounds great! Thanks!....................
WHAAAAAAAT??????? Canned blueberries?
j/k I can’t stand the thought of blueberry muffins.
We have a blueberry bush, I prefer them straight off of the plant, no need to bake them. Birds like them too. I did not put in much effort gathering them this year, a bonanza for the family of mocking birds that have taken up residence., they had most of them this year.
We visited my wife’s mom for Mother’s Day in southern Georgia. She’s 82.
Where she lives is surrounded by hundreds of acres of blueberry farms..
They gave us a big bag of blueberries, about a gallon or so................
I love blueberries. My grandmother had a half dozen or so blueberry bushes she planted and tended to, in her yard and she made the best blueberry cake from those. Grandma’s grandparents had grown red raspberries and my parents transplanted some of those old raspberry bushes from the old homestead to their property and it took maybe 10 years for those bushes to finally be produced raspberries in large amounts. We mostly ate red raspberries on cereal or by the handful freshly picked. As kids, all of us in the neighborhood, searched the woods for wild blackberries. There were many wild blackberry bushes back then, and all of us kids knew where to find them. Strawberries were a luxury as for some reason, no one in the family or neighborhood grew strawberries. But once or twice a year, in season, someone would go to the store and buy fresh strawberries, so we could all get together for strawberry shortcake. We usually had homemade Jiffy-Mix shortcake biscuits because they were less expensive than the store-bought packaged sponge-cake shortcakes. Of course, the whipped cream was fresh heavy cream whipped with an old handheld rotary mixer which was passed down from grandma’s grandma. Berries are as delicious as candy to me and of course so much healthier.
We picked ‘dewberries’ here back in April and May.
Dewberries are just like blackberries except they grow on trailing vines instead of upright bushes.
We picked about a gallon or so from our local park...........
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