Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Huckleberry Cake. ✠

• 1 cup butter.
• 2 cups sugar.
• 3 cups flour.
• 5 eggs.
• 1 cup sweet milk.
• 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
• 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, and the same of cinnamon.
• 1 qt. ripe, fresh huckleberries, thickly dredged with flour.

Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the beaten yolks; then the milk, the flour, and spice, the whites whipped stiff, and the soda. At the last stir in the huckleberries with a wooden spoon or paddle, not to bruise them. Bake in a loaf or card, in a moderate but steady oven, until a straw comes out clean from the thickest part.

This is a delicious cake, and deserves to be better known. It is best on the second day after baking.