Avery’s Exam-Week Blue­berry Muffins

(makes six medium-sized muffins)

5 oz/150g plain flour
pinch salt
1/2 tsp bak­ing pow­der
1 large egg
1 1/2 oz/40g white sugar
1/2 vanilla pod, scraped
zest of 1/2 lemon
2 oz/50g but­ter, melted
1 cup blueberries

Heat oven to 350F/180C. Line the muf­fin tin with paper lin­ers, or but­ter and flour each muf­fin space.

Sift (or sim­ply shake through a sieve, as I do since I don’t own a sifter) the flour, salt and bak­ing pow­der into a bowl just large enough to hold them. In a larger bowl, stir together the egg, sugar, vanilla pod scrap­ings, lemon zest and butter.

Fold the flour mix­ture into the egg mix­ture just gen­tly, mix­ing until all is JUST wet but leav­ing behind plenty of lumps. Care­fully stir in blue­ber­ries and divide among muf­fin cups.

Bake for 25–30 min­utes, or until just browned and firm. The blue­berry juice will have bub­bled up and may look a bit messy around the edges, but that’s what keeps them juicy and lovely. If you used paper cups, remove the muffins (in their paper cups) from the muf­fin tin right away.

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