Whortleberry Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two cups sugar
• three cups flour
• five eggs
• one cup sweet milk
• one teaspoonful soda
• dissolved in hot water
• one teaspoonful nutmeg
• the same of cinnamon
• one quart ripe, fresh whortleberries thickly dredged with flour

Method

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   Stir butter and sugar to a cream; add beaten yolks, then milk, flour, spice, the whites of eggs whipped stiff, and the soda; lastly, stir in the berries, being careful not to bruise them; bake in a loaf, in a moderate, steady oven, until a straw comes out clean from thickest part.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 355. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHORTLEBERRY CAKE. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, five eggs, one cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water, one teaspoon- ful nutmeg and the same of cinnamon, one quart ripe, fresh whortle- berries thickly dredged with flou

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