Blueberry Tea Cake

Ingredients

• ^ cup butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• the beaten yolks of 3 eggs
• y^ cup of milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Yi salt
• 4 cups flour
• 1 pt. blueberries

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, milk, baking powder, and salt sifted with flour.

2. 2

   Fold in beaten egg whites and blueberries.

3. 3

   Bake for 30 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 370. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoons baking powder, ^ cup butter, ^ cup sugar. 1 egg, white and yolk beaten separately, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 heaping cup huckleberries, or very thin sliced apples, added last. Bake in a thin pan ^ an hr. — Mrs. Wm. P. Williams, 4463 Wood- lawn Ave., Chicago, 111. APPLE SAUCE CAKE.— 1 cup brown sugar, creamed with ^ cup butter; add 1^ cups apple sauce, 1 cup raisins, 2 teaspoons of soda, dissolved in a little water, ]/^ teaspoon of cloves, J/2 tea- spoon cinnamon, % teaspoon nutmeg and 2 cups flour. The apple sauce serves instead of milk or water and keeps the cake moist for a long time. — Mrs. E. J. McGrath, 315 S. 5th Ave., Maywood, III. BELFAST CAKE.— Cream together y. cup butter, V/2 cups sugar; add 1 cup sour milk, 2 cups graham flour, ^ cup white flour, 1 cup raisins, 1 teaspoon soda, ^ teaspoon cinnamon, ^ tea- spoon salt, a saltspoon of nutmeg. Bake rather slowly. This may be used as either a loaf or layer cake. Sour cream my be used, and use less butter. — Mrs. G. A. Love, Hubbard Woods, 111. BERRY CAKE. — Cream together 3 eggs, }i cup of butter and 1 cup of sugar; add 1 cup of berries, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2 table- spoons of sour cream or milk, 1^ cups of flour; bake in layers. — Mrs. L. A. Robertson, Austin, 111. . BLACK CAKE (Famous) — 1 cup white sugar, }i cup butter, 1 egg, K cup sour milk, 1 heaping teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon va- 542 CAKE nilla, 1 large cup flour. Dissolve two squares of chocolate in J/2 a cup boiling water, and add last. — Mrs. Wm. P. Williams, 4463 VVoodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111. BLUEBERRY TEA CAKE.— Cream ^ cup butter and 1 cup of sugar; add the beaten yolks of 3 eggs, y^ cup of milk, 1 tea- spoon baking powder, and Yi salt, sifted in 4 cups flour. Mix well together and fold in the whites of 3 eggs, beaten stif?, and 1 pt. blueberries

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