LAURA LEE ALICE
COOKS
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This is a great recipe for an easy dessert, snack or breakfast. It has a soft, moist
texture, a subtle sweetness from the blueberries, and a pleasant aroma. It's simple
to put together, sort of like a quick bread. There is also a simple glaze recipe in the
Options below.
Ingredients
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1½ cups cake flour, sift before measuring
• 2 Tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¾ cup salt
• ½ cup milk
• 3 Tbsp butter, melted
• 1 tsp good vanilla extract
• 1 cup fresh blueberries (if using frozen, use while still frozen)
Preheat oven to 400°F; grease and flour a small loaf pan.
Gather all the ingredients you will need before starting.
Instructions
1. In medium bowl, beat egg and gradually add sugar while beating until mixture
is smooth, light and fluffy.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together in a small bowl,
alternately add with milk to egg mixture, beating after each addition.
3. After batter is well mixed, add melted butter and vanilla; gently fold in the
blueberries. Do not overmix.
4. Pour mixture into prepared pan and smooth the top; place on a rack in the
middle of the oven; bake for 25 minutes or until top springs back when lightly
touched. The top should be a light golden brown.
5. Remove from oven; place on wire rack to cool.
This recipe makes about 8 servings.
Options
• Try making these in mini muffin pans for bite-size tea cakes.
• For the glaze: Mix 1 cup confectioner's sugar with 1 Tbsp soft butter and enough
butter and enough milk to make it spreadable.
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac