Jordan Marsh's Blueberry Muffins

[elleng]

'This recipe came to The Times in a 1987 article by Marian Burros, "The Battle of the Blueberry Muffins." Two years prior, Ms. Burros wrote about a recipe for the muffins attributed to the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. The hotel had adapted a recipe used by Gilchrist's, once one of city''s best-known department stores. After it ran, one reader wrote in to say that the best blueberry muffins in Boston were not from the Ritz-Carlton, but from the Jordan Marsh department store. She sent along the recipe, with a description of how she picks wild blueberries: standing in a pond in the August heat and plucking berries from bushes along the bank. This version has a lot more sugar and butter and fewer eggs than the Ritz-Carlton muffins. The recipe also calls for mashing a half cup of berries and adding them to the batter. This produces a very moist muffin, one that will stay fresh longer.'

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2868-jordan-marshs-blueberry-muffins?

[japple]

1. Thanks for this. I printed it out and plan to try it tomorrow.

Our blueberry bushes are putting out just now and we need to make something NOW!

[elleng]

2. GREAT!

I'll look at ours when the sun returns; meantime, bought from Jersey at grocery store.

[Beacool]

3. I remember that store.

We had one at the mall in West Palm Beach when I was young and lived there.

Thanks for the recipe.

Here's the Ritz-Carlton recipe that they mentioned in the article.

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/2256-the-ritz-carltons-blueberry-muffins