Truth is, I'm having a hard time knowing where and how to insert myself into the anti racist movement. It's important. It matters. There are big ideas at work here, and I need to boil it down to what I can do. Baking a cake is something I can do. No, it probably won't change anything.
A local celebrity foodie, cook, food writer posted this on Instagram. It's a picture from a very old cookbook so the directions assume that you know certain things. I want to translate this for you in case you care.
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
1-2 cups blueberries
1/4 cup honey
grated zest of one orange
grated zest of one lemon
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add egg and beat. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Now, I'm not sure I actually believe in sifting, but I put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and use a whisk to mix them all together. They all get incorporated well and it aerates the mixture a little too. Add a third of the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, then half the milk, then another third of the flour mixture, the rest of the milk, then the rest of the flour mixture. Adding these ingredients like this makes sure it all gets incorporated well without over mixing it. Then fold in your blueberries.
I'm not sure I fully understand the instructions about getting the mixture into the pan, but I have some ideas. I think you could just spoon it in, but I used an ice cream scoop because I was hoping for some definition and something that resembles biscuits. They were all very close together so it ended up being more like a cake. I didn't measure the honey, I just drizzled some honey over the mixture once it was in the pan and then grated the orange zest over that.
I baked them for about 20 minutes at 450F. They are delicious!
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