Recipe

The Double Blues

The Double Blues

Photo by Sagegreen

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Corn Recipe
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    Sagegreen's Notes: I made these for a colleague when she was turning 50 in August. These blueberry, blue corn meal muffins bring a tangy sweetness to any age. You can order the blue corn meal online if your...

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Serves 12 small cakes or muffins

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

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  2. Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.

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  3. Mix in the buttermilk and beaten eggs.

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  4. Add the maple syrup, optional brown sugar here, and melted butter.

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  5. Gently fold in the corn kernels, blueberries and lemon zest.

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  6. Ladle in to 12 muffin or small cake tins lined with parchment paper or sprayed with a vegetable oil.

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  7. Spoon a small amount of demerara sugar on top.

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  8. Bake about 25 minutes until lightly brown on top.

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  9. Serve warm with blueberry conserve or hot pepper jam.

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5 Comments on The Double Blues

Copy_of_me Reply

Love the name...and the story!

Ab_sum Reply

Thanks. She was not only turning 50, but having to return to work on that day with vacation over.

Ab_sum Reply

Btw my friend for whom I made the double blues is a potter who made the green dish in one of my sagebites photo. That small dish takes the theme of a blue jeans pocket, but instead represents sage colored "green" jeans, my namesake.

2-11_016 Reply

Blue cornmeal adds not only color, but a nice depth of flavor...

Ab_sum Reply

Yes, thanks. I just used some with achiote to do another batch of sagebites and they were gone in seconds.

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