Zesty Blueberry Muffins

"These are my grandma's family favorite. We all fought over them when she made them. She is gone now and I make them often to remind myself of the times we spent together in the kitchen."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
12 muffins
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Grease and line 12 muffin tins.
  • Mix Flour, ½ cup sugar, baking powder, salt in bowl.
  • Beat egg.
  • Add milk and melted butter.
  • Add liquid to dry ingredients.
  • Stir till just moist.
  • Add blueberries.
  • Fill muffin tins ¾ full.
  • Combine lemon rind and remaining sugar and sprinkle over batter.
  • Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. I got a great deal on some fresh blueberries the other day so I went searching for some recipes to use them in. I hadn' t made blueberry muffins in a long time so I thought I'd give this recipe a try. Great muffins! The only change I made was to add the lemon zest to the muffin batter rather than to add it to the tops of the muffins as the recipe states. I really loved the addition of the lemon zest. Very nice. Thank you!
     
  2. What great little muffins! I've never made blueberry muffins from scratch, and I understand why KennKonn & siblings fought over them. I used frozen blueberries (still frozen when mixed into the batter) and only about 1 tsp of lemon rind. The lemon rind & sugar on top added a nice sweet flavor that made this really great for dessert (but I'll be eating them for breakfast too!).
     
  3. These are excellent muffins. Having not made Blueberry muffins for quite some time they made for a real treat. Loved the addition of the lemon zest. Thank you for sharing your grandma's recipe.
     
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<p>I love to bake, I love to cook and I have a nasty cookbook/recipe fetish (looking at my mom's and grandma's collections Its genetic I think!!). I also collect Pillsbury Dough Boy things. I am very anal and competetive when it comes to my food...I like to entertain but find I over do it.<br /><br />I am married to my best friend, we have two kids and have been married?10 1/2 years. We are not fussy eaters except the hubby hates beets. I can live with that one thing. <br /><br />I grew up on a mixed ranch just east of the Sask/AB border south of Lloydminster. I grew up around horses and cattle. I love going home back to the animals and the farm. I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandma. She was a wonderful baker who went through the depression, I learned so much from her from her experiences. I love making her "heritage" recipes, brings my childhood back for my children and my brothers who enjoyed the treats. Her Blueberry muffin recipe is one of my absolute favorite. When I was still at home I was put in charge of meals at harvest time from the time I was old enough to use the stove. I loved coming home from school to make a big meal to haul out the field. All my friends when home to sit in front of the tv and I stood at the stove. <br /><br />I grew up in the local 4-H club, spent 10 years as a member. I am still a huge supporter of our club and very proud of its history. My mom and I organized a 50th Anniversay cookbook in 1997. It is probably my most used paper cookbook...zaar being my most used online of course. <br /><br />I love to can. I started with Aunt Lori's salsa a few years ago. I have expanded to jams, jellies, pickles,..whatever catches my eye at the time. I am a berry picker and love that fresh fruit to make the homemade jams and jellies. Being raised in Sask we have the opportunity to pick a variety of wild berries...Saskatoons, pincherries, chokecherries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, thorn apples, gooseberries,currents...we have picked them all. <br /><br />I will rarely post anything less than a 4 star review and most of the time just won't post a review until I have tried the recipe a second time. It could be my error. I don't count the dayhome kids opinion in my ratings because they like something one day and hate it the next <br /><br /><img src="http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg271/MrsTeny/Permanent%20Collection/PACSpring09Iwasadopted.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 
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