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LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH ... HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Live, Love, Laugh ... and let the 'little things' count! HAPPY NEW YEAR! "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

ONE ... WITH GOD AND NATURE ~ LEMON BLUEBERRY POUND CAKE

"Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LEMON BLUEBERRY POUND CAKE ~ A keeper from Gourmet (July 1990) ____________ CAKE: 1/3 cup milk 6 large eggs 1 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla 2 2/3 cups flour 1 tsp. double-acting baking powder 1 1/4 tsp. salt 3 sticks (1 /2 cups) soft unsalted butter 1/2 cup sugar 3/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar 1/4 cup freshly grated lemon zest 3 hefty cups blueberries, tossed with 1 1/2 Tbsp. flour SYRUP: 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 1/2 cup granulated sugar CAKE : In a small bowl whisk together milk, eggs, and vanilla. Into a bowl sift together flour, baking powder and salt. In large bowl with an electric mixer cream butter with granulated sugar, brown sugar and zest until mixture is light and fluffy. Add flour mixture alternately with egg mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beati...