Huckleberry Cake

Ingredients

• a cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• a half cup of milk
• four eggs
• one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
• the same of cinnamon
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one quart of huckleberries

Method

1. 1

   Beat a cup of butter and two cups of sugar together until light, then add a half cup of milk, four eggs beaten separately, the yolks to a cream and the whites to a stiff froth, one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, the same of cinnamon, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

2. 2

   The baking powder to be rubbed into the flour.

3. 3

   Rub one quart of huckleberries well with some flour and add them last, but do not mash them.

4. 4

   Pour into buttered pans, about an inch thick; dust the tops with sugar and bake.

5. 5

   It is better the day after baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. Beat a cup of butter and two cups of sugar together until light, then add a half cup of milk, four eggs beaten separately, the yolks to a cream and the whites to a stiff froth, one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, the same of cinnamon and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. The baking powder to be rubbed into the flour. Kub one quart of huckleberries

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.