The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

HomeCake-Making › Whortleberry Cake

Whortleberry Cake

Beat two eggs with one cup sugar; add half cup butter, one of milk, one tea-spoon soda sifted in four cups flour, pinch salt, and one pint fresh whortleberries. Bake, and eat warm. Delicious.

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