1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Huckleberry Biscuit Having tested and tasted the article made from the following receipt, we pronounce it not bad to take, and we recommend housekeepers to try it: 6 tumblers of flour, 4 of huckleberries, 2 of sour milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg rubbed into the flour, half a cup of brown sugar, a large teaspoonful of saleratus, and a teaspoonful of salt.

The Willimantic Journal, Willimantic, Connecticut, August 7, 1863


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