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July 10 was National Pick Blueberries Day! While this might be difficult to celebrate if you live in a more urban area, it is fun to pick your own blueberries if you can. This way you can also guarantee the freshness and quality of the blueberries better than if you bought them from a grocery store!
Further, July 11 was National Blueberry Muffin Day, so you would be able to use your fresh-picked blueberries to make muffins! A simple but fun way to enjoy a summer day.
What a way to spend a warm (almost) summer, sunny day..reading Blueberries by Robert Frost (one of my favorite poems) and baking a blueberry cake with fresh blueberries (of course)..
Blueberry Torta
2/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup plus 1 Tablespoon Butter
2 eggs
2/3 cup Milk
1 + 1/2 cup flour
8 ounces of fresh blueberries
*1 tsp baking powder
*grated peel of one fresh lemon
*grated peel of one fresh orange
*1 tsp pure vanilla extract
*powdered sugar to sprinkle on top
Beat eggs with sugar till frothy and well blended. Place butter in a double boiler and melt, then place in the milk a spoonful at a time while whisking with wire whisk. In a separate bowl, sift flour and baking powder, add into mixture a little at a time all the while stirring in with wire whisk. Add in peel of lemon and orange. Blend well and remove from double boiler. Let dough sit and cool for 1 hour.
Wash and dry blueberries and add half of blueberries to the dough.
Butter an 8” cake pan and place in mixture. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and cook for 15 minutes. Remove cake from oven, when cool sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
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