Description
Wild berries were a source of amazement to colonists. Captain John Smith spoke of Indians feasting us with strawberries, mulberries, bread, fish and other countrie provisions.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups white sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan with 2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle pan with 1/4 cup sugar.
- Mix together 2 3/4 cups flour
- baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl
- cream together 1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time
- then stir in the vanilla. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. Dredge blueberries with remaining 1/4 cup flour
- then fold into batter.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 70 to 80 minutes
- or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes
- then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 16