A Berry Log Cabin

An attractive combination of cake and berries may be arranged in log cabin style. Make a cake in a thin sheet, cut in strips and pile up like a log cabin, filling the spaces and center with berries. Large strawberries or blackberries are better than small berries to use in this way. Powdered sugar should be served with the berries but sweet, ripe blackberries will need very little. Another way is to add sugar to the berries and pile the top of the whole with whipped cream for a roof. Any light sponge cake is suitable, or a tea cake may be cut in strips when fresh. A simple cake is made from 1/3 cup of butter creamed, with 1 cup of sugar. Add 1/2 cup of milk, 2 beaten eggs, 1 3/4 cups of flour and 2 level teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a thin sheet in a small dripping pan. The most satisfactory cake with berries is a sponge cake.

Try this rule: Beat the yolks of 5 eggs well, add 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1 saltspoon of salt, the juice and grated rind of 1/2 a lemon. Add 1 cup of pastry flour and the stiffly beaten whites of 5 eggs folded in carefully. Fill a pan 2/3 full and bake 1 hour. Cut in long, narrow slices after it is cold.