Recipe for white cake:
1/2 c. butter or margerine
1 c. sugar
1 egg well beaten
1/2 ts salt
1 c. milk
1 c flour
4 ts powder (bkg)
1 1/2 c. huckleberries
flavoring
Cream fat and sugar
Add egg
Mix and sift dry ingredients, reserving 1/4 c. flour to dredge berries. Add alternately with milk
Fold in dredged berries
Bake in shallow pan 350 degrees 30 or 45 mins
Found in "Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1875.
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