Blueberry Basil Loaf Food

BLUEBERRY-BASIL LIMEADE

Steps:

• Place the sugar, basil sprigs and 1 cup of water into a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring every so often, until the sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let steep for 30 minutes.
• Discard the basil and pour the syrup into a pitcher. Stir in the lime juice and 4 cups of cold water. Add the blueberries and chill for at least 4 hours or until ready to serve.
• To serve, put some ice in a glass, pour over the limeade and garnish with basil leaves. To make into a cocktail, add ice to a rocks glass and top with 1 1/2 ounces gin. Top off with the limeade and garnish with basil.

BLUEBERRY LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Stir milk, oil, egg, and vanilla extract into flour mixture until batter is just blended. Gently fold blueberries into batter; pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 70 minutes.

BLUEBERRY LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toss one cup of the blueberries in a bowl with one-half tablespoon flour and set aside. Butter a 9-by5-by-3-inch baking pan and dust with one-half tablespoon flour.
• Sift the remaining all-purpose flour with the whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and cardamom and set aside.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Stir in the flour mixture alternately with the milk. Stir in the vanilla. Fold in the cup of blueberries and spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Scatter the remaining blueberries on top.
• Place in the oven and bake about an hour and 10 minutes, until browned and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool 10 minutes, then remove cake from the pan to continue cooling on a rack.