Huckleberry Float Recipe
Here is an old recipe for a huckleberry float, a huckleberry biscuit covered with a hard sweet sauce. I don't know where floats were first cooked but I have heard this is based on an English recipe.
1 cup berries
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon shortening
1/2 cup milk
Pick over and wash berries; put into small saucepan with half cup of water, and bring quickly to boil; add sugar and boil 5 minutes. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; mix in shortening very lightly; add milk slowly. Take a teaspoonful at a time in floured hands and roll into balls. Place on floured pie tin; bake about 12 minutes in hot oven. While warm break in half; butter each biscuit; put into dish and pour berries over. Serve hot with hard sauce.
HARD SAUCE
1/3 cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon flavoring extract
Cream butter until very light; add sugar very slowly, beating until light and creamy. Add flavoring and beat again.