Buttermilk Cake Is Flavor-rich

Tender, light buttermilk cakes remain popular in today’s country kitchens. No wonder—they taste so marvelous. They used to come fragrant from ovens on churning day when women enjoyed plentiful supplies of buttermilk, the by-product. But gradually most homemakers turned butter-making over to dairies with an enthusiasm that matched that of their husbands and sons who gave up milking the cows by hand. Buttermilk for use in cake-making began to come in bottles and now in cartons.

Our collection of country cakes contains several updated recipes for buttermilk specials. Blue Ribbon Banana Cake, a rather fancy layer cake, took top honors at a county fair. Cocoa flavored Brown Mountain Cake bakes in an oblong pan. In our Countryside Test Kitchens we decided it reached the peak of taste perfection when topped with chocolate frosting. A perfect companion for ice cream.