Old-Fashioned Blueberry Muffins

2005 review: Very nice. I microwaved the butter and milk mixture too, like JillAZ. I also substituted whole wheat pastry flour for regular - not bad at all; not as gritty as regular whole wheat. Thanks for posting! ***updated 2009 - this is one of my go-to recipes still. Just wonderful, easy, and adaptable. I microwave the milk and butter together for a minute in a pyrex measuring cup, mix in the eggs with a fork, add the zest and vanilla, and proceed from there. Too lazy to clean a muffin tin most of the time, so I often bake in a 9x9 or 9x13 pan, for delicious blueberry cake squares. Usually I use lemon zest rather than orange zest, but either are delicious!

Mmmmmm.... so flavorful and tender and moist with a lovely crisp around the edges! I made this recipe into a loaf of bread because it is so much easier for DH to take with him to share on the jet when he flies. Since I made a loaf, I baked in a 350* oven for 55 minutes. I used buttermilk in place of the regular milk, lemon zest for the orange (as that's what I had on hand), and fresh-picked raspberries.

I made these for breakfast this morning exactly by the recipe. The muffins are a nice texture, slightly crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. I usually make muffins with oil, but the butter taste came through and really does make me think of old-fashioned flavor.

These were very good and more like a mix muffin than most recipes. I did a batch and a half and it made a dozen giant muffins. I didn't have muffin cups so sprayed the tin and it stuck some so will make sure I buy some for next time (there will be a next time). I melted the butter in the microwave and then added it to the milk with the vanilla and used lemon peel since I didn't have any orange. Then I didn't need to wait for it to cool. I also made a topping of sugar, butter and flour, brown sugar and oatmeal and put that on before I baked it. These were very good, don't pass this up! Thanks for recipe.

Halved the recipe exactly measuring 3 oz for the sugar. We have to limit sugar so not too many treats like these! Bake time was right on (20 minutes), texture was absolutely beautiful, but, while they tasted pretty good, flavor did not wow. I saw this recipe yesterday morning and happened to be prepping orange chicken so had some extra orange zest. I did not taste the orange and that was the only reason I tried this recipe. I'm sure I will make these again some time because they are simple and the results are, as I said, pretty good. One big bonus for me is that they specifically mentioned frozen blueberries! Looks - 8, taste - 7.5, texture - 10!