Blueberries

Blueberries are one of my favorite things to preserve, and eat for that matter.  Unlike corn and tomatoes, there are not 15 steps you have to go through to preserve them well.  All you have to do is wash, pat dry, and freeze.  Then as you need them you go out to the freezer with your scoop and scoop them out and use.  It’s that easy. 

We mostly use ours throughout the year to make blueberry muffins.  They are my absolute favorite thing to have on a Sunday morning with my coffee, while I watch the news and talk with the farmer about how the milk market is doing.  The milk market is much more interesting if you have hot coffee and a fresh blueberry muffin.My blueberries are now ready for the freezer and I pull them out just a cup or two at a time.  They also are really good to have as a frozen snack.  My daughter eats them frozen on her yogurt.  I still prefer them in the form of a muffin.

The Farm Wife

10 thoughts on “Blueberries

  1. I love your comment on how they make the milk market seem more interesting! Lot of talk here about the milk market, too; however, I don’t always have a blueberry muffin and cup of coffee in hand!

    Hope you have been having some rain. Here, not so much. I saw my dad’s herd out on “pasture” and all I could help but thing was too many mouths to feed.

    • These are not from my personal blueberry bushes. I just planted mine this spring. I get these from my amish neighbors who get them from Michigan. I hope mine will give me this kind of harvest in a few years. I have Blueray bushes.

  2. We have been loving our blueberries! I froze most of them but have eaten a ton, especially on my granola in the morning. I’ve even had to pull some back out of the freezer already. Can’t wait for the peaches to come now!

  3. It’s blueberry season in Maine, too. I am very partial to the wild low-bush blueberries that are native here; they are much smaller than the high-bush and cultivated blueberries, but the pack an intense flavor punch. I have ordered a 20-pound box from a blueberry farm on the coast, and will drive out with a friend on Thursday to pick them out. I should have them all washed, dried, packaged, and in the freezer by Thursday night; with luck, I can make them last until the first strawberries are ripe next June.

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