Blueberry Muffins

I had always thought that muffins were a lot of fuss about a disappointing nothing. But that, I found, was because they were the industrially produced ones. When you make them yourself – and they are the easiest things in the world to make, which is why you’ll find a couple of recipes for them in the children’s chapter – they’re nothing like as tall and puffy as the ones you see in shops and cafés, and you’ll also notice that they’ve got some interest about them. That dry mass of aerated wo