A Quiet Weekend with Blueberry Lemon Tea Cake and Flowers

Hello, Dear Friends,
I hope that you had a lovely weekend! 

Here, it has been quiet - a time to catch up on chores

and enjoy some sweet rewards for hard work.

He: Fence mending, lawn mowing, a trip to the recycle station.
Me: Marketing, Floor washing, laundry, gardening......

and baking. 

The weather has been exactly what
 you would expect in the mountains. 

Cool, frequently wet and misty, and very green,  

Perfect for baking year round. 

Not to say that we don't get very hot and dry weather.....

but this year has been cool.  

I am glad, as the last few years have 

had terrible forest fires here in Washington State. 

A typical summer day this year. 

Clouds moving over the mountains

leaving lovely shadows. 

If we are lucky, Mt. Rainier will appear, 

but most days 'The Mountain' stays hidden

behind the clouds. 

It makes for a lovely surprise when it does appear. 

So while the clouds float endlessly by, let's bake! 

With fresh blueberries in the markets right now, 

I wanted to bake something to take advantage 

of the bounty. 

This recipe is so easy and so good! 

Blueberry Lemon Tea Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan; set aside. 

1 cup blueberries

1 + 2/3 cups flour, 

plus 1 Tbsp for dusting blueberries. 

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 + 1/2 tsps baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

grated peel from 1 large lemon

Glaze

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

****

Toss blueberries with 1 Tbsp flour

and set aside. 

In large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar

until light and fluffy. 

Beat in eggs one at a time. 

Add milk, remaining flour,

baking powder and salt. 

Beat until just combined. 

(You can use a mixer, 

but I simply used my favorite wooden spoon :)

Fold in prepared blueberries 

and lemon peel. 

Transfer to your prettiest loaf pan :)

Set the timer for 1 hour. 

(You may need to bake a little longer)

Test with a toothpick - if it comes out clean, it's done. 

While it's baking, clean up 

so you will have a pretty kitchen 

to eat in. <3

Then go out and cut
some pretty flowers.

Put them in a charming vase.
(A recent thrift-store find)

Bring them into the kitchen....

Something to cheer a cloudy day.

Add a few hydrangea for my
Grandmother, Beatrice Euphemie's
flour sifter.

A little sunshine for the kitchen.

A few leftovers for snacking.

I hear the timer chiming.....
The tea cake is done  :)

Time to make the glaze......

Glaze: In a small saucepan combine
the 1/4 cup sugar with 1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice.

Heat to boiling, stirring until sugar dissolves.

Prick slightly cooled (10 min.) tea cake
with a toothpick all over.
Brush top of cake with hot glaze.
Use all the glaze. It will sink down into
the toothpick holes and form a sugary
coating on top.

Can you say, 'Yum'?!?

Set the tea cake aside while you brew a pot of tea.

Look back often to admire your hard work :)

Slice thickly.....

Enjoy!

Then go out and watch the moon rise
as the sun sets.

A beautiful end to a quiet weekend.

xoxo

Thank you for visiting, Dear Friends!


A little note: We have been having electrical outages here
 and I have lost my 'Five on Friday' post, so if you
thought you saw it, you did! I had to re-boot my computer,
my television, and re-set my modem. In the process, the
page I was editing was lost. Lost in space......Poof!


Anyway, it wasn't your imagination that my post was once there.....

xoxo


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