"A blueberry buckle pie - and that looked real good."

Irene was in the kitchen poking blueberry buckle into the baby's mouth.

Can I have some of that blueberry buckle?

Blueberry buckle, strained liver, strained carrots.

Soon, the oval wooden table in Anne Knight Ruff's kitchen is groaning from the platters of muffins, salads, quiche, and blueberry buckle spread upon it.

Blueberry buckle with cream was crunchy and cakey at once; pot au crème seemed a combination of fudge, mousse and chocolate chips; pecan pie was perfect.

We grew up on hollandaise sauce, blueberry buckle, succotash, Welsh rabbit, chicken country captain and fresh strawberry pie, whose secret was a thin layer of cream cheese between the filling and the crust.

The revived Victory has a sandwich and entree menu that changes daily, except for pastries like brioche and blueberry buckle, a type of coffee cake ($2 each), and one recurring staple, buttermilk fried chicken ($7.50).

An old-time American dessert, blueberry buckle, would be improved with more blueberries as well as more topping, but its flavor was superior to that of the rather doughy one in "Lee Bailey's Country Desserts" (Clarkson Potter, 1988, $19.95).