Fannie Farmer Blueberry Muffins - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups pastry flour or 1 7/8 cups all-purpose flour reserve 1/4 for sprinkling over blueberries
2 cups fresh blueberries
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
1 -2 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar

Preparation

1. Preheat oven for 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Sift into a mixing bowl all dry ingredients (reserving 1/4 cup flour for add in berries). DO NOT USE both pastry and all-purpose flour. Use one or the other.
3. Mix in another bowl remaining ingredients (save berries for last).
4. Pour wet mixture over the flour mixture. Stir only enough to dampen the flour.
5. Mix 1/4 cup of flour with berries, add 1/2 cup sugar.
6. Gently fold berries into batter.
7. Spoon into buttered muffin tins (or paper lined tins), having the tins about two-thirds full.
8. Bake at 400 degrees fahrenheit for 15 minutes.
Makes 12.