My beautiful friend Judy is a loving and dutiful wife to her husband who is feeling quite under the weather. What started as an aching back turned out to be "the disease which shall not be named" after several doctors visits.
Words are powerful. So I will never give the disease more power by speaking its name aloud.
But Love is more powerful. Comfort food made by the loving hands of caring friends is powerful. Prayer is Powerful. And God Almighty is Omnipotent and is Pure Light and Pure Love. He's got this. All I have to do is say the prayer and bake the comfort food.
So Tuesday evening, Judy and her sweetie will be dining on homemade Turnip Greens Soup, French Baguette, and a special dessert for her Decatur-born husband, Bodacious Alabama Boy Bait.
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Bodacious Alabama Boy Bait
To be completely transparent, my recipe was strongly inspired by the vintage recipe of the 15-year-old Chicago teen named Renny Powell. In 1954 she submitted a blueberry coffee cake recipe to the Pillsbury $100,000 Recipe & Baking Contest (precursor to today’s Pillsbury Bake-Off) and took second place in the youth division. It was named in honor of its powers with the opposite sex. Her Blueberry Boy Bait recipe has been in circulation ever since, however I've added my Southern Lovin' Spin on it.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 1 and half sticks melted butter, plus more for greasing the baking dish
- 1 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cups fresh blueberries, preferably hand-picked in season
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° and butter a 9x13-inch baking pan.Bake until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. So take seat and smell the wonderful goodness of sugar and cinnamon baking in the oven.
