BERRY MUFFINS.-1 pint flour, ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons melted butter, ¼ cup sugar, 2 small teaspoons Royal Baking Power, 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1 cup berries. Mix as for plain muffins; add berries last, dusting them with a little flour. Bake in …
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BERRY MUFFINS.-1 pint flour, ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons melted butter, ¼ cup sugar, 2 small teaspoons Royal Baking Power, 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1 cup berries. Mix as for plain muffins; add berries last, dusting them with a little flour. Bake in muffin-pans in hot oven.
BERRY DUMPLINGS. – Use berries of any kind carefully picked, hulled or prepared, and make as for apple dumplings, putting 1 or 2 tablespoons of berries in each dumpling.
DUMPLING. – 1 quart flour, thoroughly mix with it 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder and a small teaspoon salt; rub in a piece of butter or lard the size of an egg, an then add 1 medium potato,grated in the flour; after the butter is well mixed, stir in milk, and knead to the consistency of soft biscuit-dough, break off pieces of dough large enough to close over berries without rolling, and lay in an earthen dish and steam until the fruit is tender. Serve with a Brandy Sauce.
BRANDY SAUCE. – ¾ pint water, 1 cup sugar, 1 small teaspoon corn-starch, 1 teaspoon each extract lemon and cinnamon, ½ gill (quarter of a pint) brandy. Boil water, add corn-starch dissolved in a little cold water, and the sugar; boil 15 minutes, strain; when about to serve, add extracts and brandy.
MUSEUM NOTE: One of the stories that is repeated in almost every interview I conduct with senior members of the county, is a simple tale of gathering berries on the way home from school. A Karo syrup tin was a favorite item to be recycled as a lunch bucket, especially if the owner planned to find some ripe fruit to take home to mama. Her thrifty nature would never allow good food to spoil so some of her precious store of supplies would be combined with the content of the bucket and enjoyed by every member of the family.
The Baldwin County Heritage Museum is a farming museum. A visit with us is a trip back to Grandma and Grandpa's house. We feature antique and vintage farm and household equipment, tools and furnishings. We hope to add blueberries along the fence row so that our visitors can take their children berry picking.
