Do you have some favorite recipes, inspired by the Hemlock Falls series? Do you have recipes that Meg and Sarah should be using? Send them to me, and we'll consider them for use on the site!
Here are some sites with great recipes:
- Bed and Breakfast Inns Online recipes—more than 2000 recipes submitted by innkeepers around the world
- BreadandBreakfast.com recipes—online recipes and listing of cookbooks
- Betty Crocker.com—an old standard
- Mealtime.org—a recipe site featuring canned goods as ingredients
- Homecooking from About.com
- Try CopyKat, KitchenLink, or TopSecretRecipes for recipes just like those used in your favorite restaurants
I love to swap recipes with readers! Here’s a wonderful blueberry muffin recipe from Mary-Elissa.
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. plain yogurt (vanilla-flavored works, too)
1/3 c. orange juice
4 Tbsp. melted and cooled butter or margerine
1 large egg
1 1/2 tsp. orange extract (if you don’t have it, vanilla is OK—orange lavor won’t be as intense)
1/4 tsp. grated orange rind
2 c. fresh blueberries, rinsed and drained
400 degree oven. Recipe makes 12 (or so) muffins.
I use the foil cupcake liners with the papers inside to guard against burning. I dispose of foil liners after baking.
Combine dry. Combine wet. Combine wet and dry by stirring. Add blueberries. Only fill muffin cups about 2/3 of the way.
Bake for 15 minutes and CHECK. You may need to a few more minutes but you don’t want them to burn. Cool for five minutes before removing from the pan. Can be served warm or cool.
Muffins can be iced with a thin drizzle or eaten plain. I have even made an orange icing for them when my kids were small so that they thought it was a cupcake!
Muffins freeze well.
Hope you like it. My boys are 18 and 20 and still watch the grocery store for blueberries in June. (They still beg me to ice them too. Their palates haven’t quite caught up to their height!)
I have tried to make this as a quick bread/brunch cake, but haven’t gotten it to work yet.
— Mary-Elissa