Huckleberry Cake.
This cake should have been made on Saturday. It keeps well, and is much better the second day than the first.
5 eggs; 3 cups of powdered sugar; 1 cup of butter; 1 cup of sweet milk; 4 cups of prepared flour; 1 teaspoonful mixed nutmeg and cinnamon; 2 cups of huckleberries dredged with flour; ¼ teaspoonful of soda stirred in boiling water and mixed with the milk.
Cream butter and sugar; add the beaten yolks, the milk, the flour, alternately, with the whipped whites, and, lastly, the dredged berries. Bake in small loaves, or in patty-pans, in a moderate oven, covering as it begins to brown. It takes a longer time to bake than plain cake.
Iced Coffee.
Make more coffee than needed for breakfast. Set by three or four cups of strong coffee, adding nearly one-third as much boiled milk, while both are hot. Set in ice, and, in serving, put a lump of ice in each glass.
Second Week. Tuesday.
Tapioca Soup.
2 lbs. lean veal; 2 lbs. beef-bones, cracked; 1 slice of corned ham; 1 carrot; bunch of herbs; 1 onion; 8 large tomatoes; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; pepper and salt; ¼ cup granulated tapioca, previously soaked two hours in a little cold water; 3 quarts of water.