The 29th recipe I made for the Cook the Book Fridays group using the Everyday Dorie cookbook by Dorie Greenspan is Cornmeal-Buttermilk Loaf Cake, With or Without Berries, it can be found on page 264.
Ingredients: flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, eggs, sugar, vanilla, buttermilk, butter, and berries.
The recipe suggested using blueberries or raspberries for this loaf cake, but I had blackberries on hand, and a place to share the loaf, so that’s the direction I went with this one. It’s a quick mix with common ingredients that one usually has on hand. It bakes in less than an hour, cools a little, and slices nicely. I wasn’t sure what cornmeal in a loaf cake was going to taste like, but it is very good, not too sweet, and the berries are such a fun pop of unexpected flavor as they squish in your mouth. I love warm blackberries, toasting it worked nicely, too. This was a surprise find, and I think it deserves repeating now and again. It will be nice to try it with the other berries as well.
To see what others in the group made this week, click here, for the Cook the Book Fridays link. We don't publish recipes from the book here in deference to the author, but the author has been generous and you can find many of them online.