[net.cooks] Melt In Your Mouth Blueberry Cake

egb@burl.UUCP (egb) (07/19/84)

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              MELT IN YOUR MOUTH BLUEBERRY CAKE (Old Fashioned)

2 eggs - separated                                          Norma Lancaster
1 cup sugar                                                 Bangor, Maine
1/2 cup shortening
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1 1/2 cup blueberries

-Beat egg whites till stiff. Add 1/4 cup sugar. Cream shortening. Add salt and 
 vanilla. Add remainder sugar. Add egg yolks. Beat until light and creamy.
-Sift flour and baking powder. Add alternately to creamed mixture with milk.
-Fold in egg-white mixture, then blueberries (add 1 tbsp. flour to lightly 
 coat them first).
-Turn into 8x8 well-greased pan. Sprinkle top lightly with granulated sugar.
-Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes.

(Have also tried sugar mixed with grated orange peel.)


Submitted by Ed Baldwin, Burlington, N.C.