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Salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with crackers or crusty bread.

Snowden Family Blueberry Grunt Most Maine families have multiple recipes for blueberry desserts-duffs, grunts, slumps, crunches, crisps, pies, and coffee cakes. Throughout New England and the eastern provinces of Canada, it's possible to get into a quite lively discussion about which is which. Whatever you call them, these desserts are delicious. Here's the one the Snowden family serves at the clambake. This recipe was adapted for home use by the late Maine author A. Carmen Clark.

cup water

1 quart blueberries

cup sugar

Topping 1 cups flour

2 Tablespoons b.u.t.ter

2 teaspoons baking powder

teaspoon salt

cup sugar

cup milk

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Grease a deep baking dish or ca.s.serole and into this put the berries, sugar, and water.

Place in the oven for 20 minutes while mixing the dough.

Blend the b.u.t.ter into the flour. Add other ingredients and mix in with a fork, making the dough.

Spoon the dough over the hot berries.

Bake for 20 additional minutes.

Livvie's Lobster Mac and Cheese Livvie is the real cook in the Snowden family and her lobster mac and cheese is delicious. The sharp taste of the cheese with the sweetness of the lobster meat, and the textures-springy noodles, toothsome lobster, and crunchy panko breadcrumbs-cannot be beat. Livvie uses local cheeses that can only be purchased in Maine, but simple subst.i.tutions are supplied.

1 pound elbow macaroni

2 Tablespoons b.u.t.ter

2 Tablespoons flour

1 cup milk

teaspoon grated nutmeg

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