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Jordan Marsh’s Blueberry Muffins

May 30, 2017 by The Generalissimo 6 Comments

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Citizens, your beloved Leader went to college in Massachusetts, and it was in that state that I first sampled these legendary muffins!

As noted on newengland.com:

While most New Englanders have memories of shopping at Jordan Marsh, the Boston-based department store that peppered the local landscape from the 1860s to the late 1990s, it is Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins you hear about the most.

Muffins from a department store? Actually, that’s not so unusual. Like nearly all grand department stores of the era, the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston’s Downtown Crossing housed an on-site cafe, or bakery, that served refreshments to shoppers.

No doubt it offered up a variety of tempting, sugary treats, but a certain recipe for blueberry muffins caught on, making the bakery (and the store) famous.

Back in 2012, Yankee ran an essay by Ann Hood titled “Confessions of a Marsha Jordan Girl,” which recalled how New England’s iconic department stores (both Jordan Marsh and Filene’s) offered a taste of elegance and sophistication to 1970s New England teens. She remembered the Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins like this:

They came all the way from Boston, from the Jordan Marsh bakery. I’d never been to Boston, never been to Jordan Marsh. It loomed large and sparkling in my imagination. I thought it must look like a palace, its floors filled with dazzling mirrors and fancy women spritzing perfume at customers as they passed. We had department stores in Rhode Island, sure—but none that produced muffins the size of those, none the size of Jordan Marsh’s, none that dwelled in a city like Boston.

In the mid-1990s, after more than 100 years of operation, Jordan Marsh (which also included stores in Florida beginning in the late 1950s) was eventually folded into the Macy’s chain, and the glory days of the enormous Jordan Marsh blueberry muffins ended. Thankfully, the recipe lives on (thanks in large part to reprints from The Boston Globe).

Citizens, I fell in love with these muffins during college and they are a wonderful treat that deserve their legendary reputation! I hope you will see fit to try them at your earliest opportunity!

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Jordan Marsh’s Blueberry Muffins


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Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 cups flour (unsifted, blend of bread and pastry)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 cups blueberries
  • 2 teaspoons sugar (for tops)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. On low speed, cream butter with sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and mix until blended. Sift dry ingredients; add to eggs-and-butter mixture, alternating with milk. Mash 1/2 cup of berries and stir into mixture by hand. Add the rest of the berries whole and stir by hand. Grease muffin tins well with butter; grease the top surface of the pans as well. Pile mixture high in each muffin cup, and sprinkle the sugar over tops.
  2. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.
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Nutrition

  • Calories: 738.85 kcal
  • Sugar: 63.15 g
  • Sodium: 521.78 mg
  • Fat: 26.97 g
  • Saturated Fat: 15.94 g
  • Trans Fat: 0.94 g
  • Carbohydrates: 115.51 g
  • Fiber: 3.91 g
  • Protein: 11.05 g
  • Cholesterol: 144.04 mg

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  1. Peter Cohen

    May 31, 2017 at 1:58 PM

    True story: One of my first jobs out of high school was selling hot dogs right outside Jordan’s Downtown Crossing location in downtown Boston. And as a native of Massachusetts and a proud son of the South Shore, I can state authoritatively that Jordan Marsh’s blueberry muffins are like festering garbage compared to the glory of Gilchrist’s macaroons. Served warm, in wax paper.

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  2. Holly Pacelli-Ambrose

    May 31, 2017 at 5:32 PM

    You can get an EXACT duplicate at the Muffin House in Medway and Mendon, Mass. They may ship out if state…

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  3. Patty Paronto

    May 31, 2017 at 8:45 PM

    Yum

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  4. Lillian Wolfson

    June 1, 2017 at 6:39 PM

    Wendy Steuernagel. Thinking of you!!

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    • Wendy Steuernagel

      June 1, 2017 at 6:49 PM

      So funny!❤️

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  5. Cynthia Marvin

    June 1, 2017 at 7:42 PM

    The best blueberry muffins ever!

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