Blueberry Season in Maine | Wild Maine Blueberries |Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Posted on April 14, 2012

Maine Blueberry Field © Photo By Shane Wright

Maine Blueberry Field                                                 © Photo By Shane Wright

In the early years of my children’s lives– during blueberry season, each year, we would rake blueberries. It was a way to make extra money and a way to fill our freezer with blueberries.

We would pack the white Thunderbird with our blueberry rakes, wooden crates, a cooler filled with plenty of drinks, and a lunch. Then, we’d grab up the kids…and off to the wild blueberry fields we would go to rake blueberries for the day.  The kids sat down in the patches of blue and had tons of fun picking and eating, and they always ate more blueberries than they picked! Yet, we would always go away from the blueberry fields with plenty of blueberries to sell, and ample berries for the freezer, enough blueberries for blueberry muffins, blueberry cake, blueberry cobbler, blueberry pie and the like.

I hope you enjoy this blueberry muffin recipe; it is our families favorite! When you shop your supermarket for blueberries, look for Organic Wild Maine Blueberries, or “Organic” blueberries, wherever you shop.

Blueberry Picking Times in Maine (ME)

If you happen to be visiting Maine…Pick your own blueberries that grow wild in Acadia National Park…Starting in July through August, you will find wild Maine blueberries ripening.

In the Blueberry fields– picking is generally from late July to mid-September. But if you are interested in picking your own, it is always best to call the blueberry farm to see when their picking times are.

Pick your own BLUEBERRIES AT A FARM IN MAINE, go to...www.pickyourown.org. for these counties Androscoggin County, Kennebec County, Lincoln County, Sagadahoc County, and Waldo County, Maine.

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-Virginia Wright

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Wild Maine Blueberry Muffin Recipe

Originally Posted on February 13, 2012

Maine Wild Blueberry Muffins

Maine Wild Blueberry Muffins

Summary: Blueberry season in Maine. In the early years of my children’s lives, we lived in Maine; my husband and I would go raking wild blueberries to earn extra money while he was going to college. We would get our blueberry rakes, wooden crates, and …Please enjoy this recipe and read the rest of the story!

Ingredients

  • 2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour (reserve 2 tbsp of flour in a separate bowl)
  • ½ c. sugar
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 c. fresh wild Maine blueberries or other organic blueberries
  • 1 c. milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/3 c. light olive oil
  • 1 egg, slightly beaten
  • Cinnamon – Sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400° F. In large mixing bowl, combine first five ingredients, mix well.
  2. Combine milk, vanilla, oil and egg; add to batter and beat until moistened; do not over mix.
  3. Take reserved flour and cover wild blueberries thoroughly, fold into batter.
  4. Grease muffin-pan cups with butter and pour batter in using a 1/4 cup measure, sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar on top of each muffin.
  5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until sharp knife inserted in center comes out clean. Rest muffins 2-3 minutes to cool, and then loosen muffins with rubber spatula and pop-out of cup. This recipe makes 12 muffins. Don’t over bake.

Preparation time: 20 minute(s)

Cooking time:

Number of servings (yield): 12

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

I hope you enjoy this recipe.

-Virginia Wright, Author of ‘Ayuh, Another Downeast Cookbook: Recipes From Maine’

Author, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Foodie & Queen of Recipe Adaptation

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Blueberry Season in Maine

By Virginia Wright

In the early years of my children’s lives– we lived in Maine; my husband was a drilling reservist in the USN, drilling once a month out of Bangor. Eventually he went in the USN as a career man, 24 years…and that took us away from Maine, until he retired, and when we returned last summer. But before all that…Click for the rest of the story!