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Recipes with wild blueberries

3 recipes that use wild blueberries, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Blueberry grunt, takes 45 minutes. It is most often cooked with milk, plain flour and caster sugar.

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Lac-Saint-Jean blueberry pie

Around Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec the low wild blueberries ripen in August, and the region is so proud of them that locals are nicknamed bleuets. Every church supper and roadside casse-croûte there sells a deep tarte aux bleuets with a flaky top crust and a dark, jammy filling that holds when sliced. Wild berries are smaller and more intense than cultivated ones and frozen wild berries work well. Serve slightly warm with vanilla ice cream or a jug of cream. A common mistake is skimping on the cornflour, which leaves a soupy filling. Chef's tip: let the pie cool for at least three hours so the juices set; cut it hot and the filling runs all over the plate.

100 minCanadianDesserts
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Blueberry grunt

Blueberry grunt is a Nova Scotia summer pudding, cooked on the stove top in August when the barrens around Oxford and Parrsboro turn blue with wild berries. Soft dumplings steam on top of the bubbling fruit under a closed lid; the name comes from the grunting noise the berries make as they simmer. It is ready in under an hour and wants vanilla ice cream or cold cream. A common mistake is a pan that is too small, so the dumplings crowd and stay doughy underneath. Chef's tip: the fruit must be bubbling before the dough goes in, or the dumplings soak instead of steaming.

45 minCanadianDesserts
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Maine wild blueberry pie

In August the barrens of Down East Maine turn blue with lowbush blueberries, smaller and more intense than the cultivated kind, and every diner and county fair sells this pie. The filling is just berries, sugar, lemon and a little thickener under a buttery double crust, so it tastes of fruit rather than spice. Frozen wild blueberries work well all year. Chef's tip: bake until the juices bubble thickly through the vents in the centre, not just the edges; that is when the thickener has worked.

100 minAmericanDesserts
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Goes well with wild blueberries