Blueberry grunt is guaranteed to make you happy the name alone will make you giggle. Its silly moniker dates back to the early settlers in the Maritimes who named this delicious mixture of blueberries and biscuit-like clouds of dough after the sound the berries made while they simmered in the pot … grunt, grunt, grunt!
Now, “down home” in Cape Breton, where Kev’s family hails from, mom might ask the kids, “Jeet?” (translation: Did you eat?) and they might reply, “No, jou?” (No, did you?). And if the kids were keeping sweet that day, she just might lay out a pot of blueberry grunt, to which they might excitedly say, “Gway wit ya!” (No way, really!).
Grunts belong to the cobbler, crumble, crisp, and buckle family a family sometimes so indistinguishable that it feels like you need a PhD to distinguish between them: which one has oats and which does not, which is baked with the crust on the bottom and which on the top. Rest assured, this grunt is quite possibly the simplest dessert in the entire book. Absolutely perfect for a casual weekday dessert treat, maybe not as fancy as you need when the in-laws are in town. Delicious served hot right out of the pot with a nice scoop of coconut ice cream melting on top.