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Old-Fashioned Whortleberry Pudding

Rub a pint of flour in with a quart of whortleberries and a little salt, wetting the whole with a very little waterabout a half-cup. Tie snug in a pudding cloth with no room for swelling and boil two hours. Serve with a sweet or wine sauce.

HUCKLEBERRY CAKE No. I Cream one cup of sugar with a half-cup of butter; add one cup of milk, two of flour, and two teaspoons baking powder. Place a pint of huckleberries in a dish and rub sugar through them well, then stir into the cake and bake in shallow pans.

HUCKLEBERRY CAKE No. 2 Sift through a quart of flour a scant teaspoon of salt and two (heaping) of baking powder. Rub into this a tablespoon of shortening, two eggs, a cup of milk, and quart of berries well sugared, and bake quickly in a shallow pan. Serve with butter or cream, cutting the cake open.