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Short-Cake

Ingredients

• 1 quart of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 1 cup of butter, or half lard and half butter
• 1 large cup of hot milk

Instructions

Sift the salt and baking powder with the flour. Rub the butter into the flour. Add the milk, and roll out the dough, cutting in small square cakes and baking to a light brown.

For a strawberry or peach short-cake have three tin pie-plates buttered; roll the dough to fit them, and bake quickly. Fill either, when done, with a quart of strawberries or raspberries mashed with a cup of sugar, or with peaches cut fine and sugared, and served hot.

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Source

The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking (1903)

Categories

Shortcakes.