An Excuse to Use Up Some Blueberries

Our blueberry bushes are budding like mad.

The harvest promises to be good. Last year we picked sixteen pounds of berries from these fairly young bushes, which I canned up. However I hadn’t really used up any of the canned berries; and if we’re going to get a similar harvest this year, I figured I’d better come up with an excuse to use last year’s fruit.

So, borrowing a cobbled-together dessert I made years ago, I made blueberry tarts.

I started by taking four quarts of berries, and draining them.

I used puff pastry for the tarts. I stinkin’ love puff pastry. It’s so versatile for both savory and sweet dishes.

I cut the sheets of puff pastry into 24 squares (12 square per sheet)…

… and rolled each square flat.

I pressed these flattened pieces into muffin tins.

To the drained blueberries, I added some flour and a bit of sugar…

…and spooned the blueberry mixture into the tins.

After this, I made a batch of “crumbs,” consisting of 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 6 tablespoons margarine, mixed together.

The crumbs got distributed over the 24 tarts.

I baked the tarts at 350F for 30 minutes.

Voilà. An easy-peasy (and delicious) way to use up last year’s blueberries!