Toward the end of Danny Dunn Invisible Boy they are sitting around the dining room table late at night and holding a discussion over coffee and blueberry muffins.
Blueberry Muffins
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups blueberries
sugar, for sprinkling tops of muffins
1. Grease 12 cup muffin pan.
2. Preheat oven to 375.
3. In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
6. Add alternately to creamed mixture with milk and vanilla.
7. Crush 1/2 cup berries and add to batter.
8. Fold remaining berries into batter and spoon into muffin pan.
9. Sprinkle with sugar.
10. Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
11. Cool in pan 5 minutes and turn onto wire rack.
