August blueberries

And these blueberries are healthy for you also.

Recipe for blueberry griddlecakes

2 cups of flour, 2  teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 tsp of baking soda, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1 1/2 cups of sour milk, buttermilk or regular milk, 1 egg, 3 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 heaping cup of wild low bush organic blueberries. I don’t think you can ever have too many blueberries in a pancake.

Mix egg and milk together and gradually add flour and other dry ingredients mixing thoroughly. Add blueberries last and cook on a hot griddle until brown. Add maple syrup when they are cooked.

Peace & Plenty Farm on Mechem Hill.

Ben Godsoe preparing blueberries for solar drying.

Ben took a three week leave of absence from his job in Vermont at Ben and Jerry’s to experiment with different drying techniques of our blueberries as a fund raising approach for the High Peaks Alliance. Highpeaksalliance.wordpress.com

He dried them at a low temperature so as to not harm their enzyme value.

Blueberry crumble recipe starts with the best blueberries.

Blueberry Crumble Recipe for Organicblueberry.com frozen blueberries.

3 cups of blueberries

1/2 cup sugar          we have substituted sucanat here or organic sugar

3/4 cup flour

1/3 cup of butter approximately 3/4 stick

juice of 1 lemon   (optional)

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon of salt

Put blueberries in buttered baking dish and add a dusting of sugar and the juice of a lemon.

Mix the remaining sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt and butter into a crumble (cuisinart does this easily), then sprinkle over blueberries.

Bake in a moderate oven, 350 degrees, about 40 minutes. Serve with heavy cream, whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Serves 6. Adapted from Marjorie Mosser Good Maine Food 1974. We reduced sugar from 2/3 to 1/2 cup.

Ryan and Rachel winnowing blueberries.

Pouring blueberries on to the winnower.

Quality control.

Antioxidants help your body by keeping the immune system from “rusting” which helps prevent diseases such as cancer. Wild blueberries were recently ranked #1 in Antioxidant content, among all fruits and vegetables, by the USDA.

Our blueberries are grown organically, and hand-harvested, so the maximum of Antioxidants are available.

The macula is an area in the centre of the retina that contains specialised cells responsible for seeing colour and fine detail.

Read the rest of this article for more information on how our blueberries are helpful in preventing Macular Degeneration.

If you want to order or  PYO (pick your own) our delicious berries, email lloyd.griscom@gmail.com or call 207-639-5550.

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