Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

It’s my understanding that you can bake with blueberries without dyeing the entire batter blue by simply patting the blueberries dry. Is this correct?

If you're making something like blueberry pancakes, put the berries in with the flour so the flour kind of coats them. That helps keep things from changing colors and the berries won't sink to the bottom.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Growing up, we always had wild blueberries in the freezer, so we never had a problem with the color spreading. Imagine my surprise when I made blueberry muffins for the first time with store bought frozen berries and the muffins were completely blue!
Now I do a quick rinse of the frozen berries in a colander and then spread them on a couple sheets of paper towel to dry them off. Keep the berries in the freezer and rinse quickly right before you add them in. It works great, but they need to stay frozen. It also helps to toss the berries with a touch of flour to keep them from sinking.
Wild berries are so much better than the farmed ones. I need to find some wild berry bushes and get them growing at our place.

 

[N F C]

We used to have a u-pick blueberry farm not far from our Florida home. Sure miss that! We could fill up a bucket of berries for $5.

 

[ronott1]

Growing up, we always had wild blueberries in the freezer, so we never had a problem with the color spreading. Imagine my surprise when I made blueberry muffins for the first time with store bought frozen berries and the muffins were completely blue!
Now I do a quick rinse of the frozen berries in a colander and then spread them on a couple sheets of paper towel to dry them off. Keep the berries in the freezer and rinse quickly right before you add them in. It works great, but they need to stay frozen. It also helps to toss the berries with a touch of flour to keep them from sinking.
Wild berries are so much better than the farmed ones. I need to find some wild berry bushes and get them growing at our place.

Sometimes here you can find frozen wild blueberries. I like them a lot and they are smaller than the farm ones

 

[wyoDreamer]

I found a patch of blueberries on a hike scouting out our elk hunting area in Wyoming - west of Encampment. Not very many, but that little handful of berries was a real treat.

I always figured that my Dad had 5 daughters so we could pick blueberries for him. I fondly remember Dad & Mom strapping the coffee can to my waist with a piece of rope and sending me into the patch to pick. There were 4 coffee cans, MINE was the one that was about 4 inch in diameter and 8 inches tall - no label on it at all. Little hands are a plus for picking those tiny berries, and being lower to the ground helps to reach those 12" tall plants. My poor 6' tall Dad was probably pretty miserable picking.

 

[Aria]

I found a patch of blueberries on a hike scouting out our elk hunting area in Wyoming - west of Encampment. Not very many, but that little handful of berries was a real treat.

I always figured that my Dad had 5 daughters so we could pick blueberries for him. I fondly remember Dad & Mom strapping the coffee can to my waist with a piece of rope and sending me into the patch to pick. There were 4 coffee cans, MINE was the one that was about 4 inch in diameter and 8 inches tall - no label on it at all. Little hands are a plus for picking those tiny berries, and being lower to the ground helps to reach those 12" tall plants. My poor 6' tall Dad was probably pretty miserable picking.

What fond memories. That is what a good life is all about.
Thanks for sharing. Aria

 

[N F C]

I found a patch of blueberries on a hike scouting out our elk hunting area in Wyoming - west of Encampment. Not very many, but that little handful of berries was a real treat.

I always figured that my Dad had 5 daughters so we could pick blueberries for him. I fondly remember Dad & Mom strapping the coffee can to my waist with a piece of rope and sending me into the patch to pick. There were 4 coffee cans, MINE was the one that was about 4 inch in diameter and 8 inches tall - no label on it at all. Little hands are a plus for picking those tiny berries, and being lower to the ground helps to reach those 12" tall plants. My poor 6' tall Dad was probably pretty miserable picking.

Encampment! Never thought I see that place mentioned on BYC A few of our golf course members are from there.

 

[wyoDreamer]

@N F C Not a whole lot in Encampment - handful of houses and an auto mechanic (maybe) ? Maybe some deer butchering places during the season... Met some people from Encampment, she was training a new horse for packing out elk for hunters.

 

[N F C]

@N F C Not a whole lot in Encampment - handful of houses and an auto mechanic (maybe) ? Maybe some deer butchering places during the season... Met some people from Encampment, she was training a new horse for packing out elk for hunters.

I've never made it down there, the closest I've been was Saratoga. On Wiki there's mention of a museum (for mining I think).

As you know, the problem going anywhere during the winter is the weather. And I work during the summer. So we'll see, maybe I'll get there at some point.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Have you been to the hot spring/swimming pool in Saratoga? That is something that I wanted to do but DH wouldn't...