A Good Short Cake Crust

Ingredients

• two cups flour
• one-half teaspoon salt
• two teaspoons baking powder
• two tablespoons shortening
• one tablespoon sugar
• Beat one egg light
• and fill the cup with milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix the dry ingredients with the egg and milk.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A GOOD SHORT CAKE CRUST. Mrs. Will Warren. Mrs. Flora F. Romer. In a mixing bowl put two cups flour, one-half tea- spoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder, two table- spoons shortening, rubbed through the flour, one ta- blespoon sugar. Beat one egg light in a coffee cup and fill the cup with milk. Mix the dry ingredients with the egg and milk. SWEET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Mrs. Mary S. Evey. Beat one cupful of sugar and one tablespoonful of butter together, and three eggs well beaien. Mix two cups of flour with one scant teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a small half teaspoonful of soda and rub through a sieve. Stir into the beaten eggs and sugar. Bake in deep tin plates. Four can be filled with the quantities given. Have three quarts of strawberries mixed with a cupful of sugar. Spread a layer of strawberries over one of the cakes, lay a second cake on this and cover with berries. A meringue, made with the white of one egg, and a tablespoonful of pow- dered sugar, may be spread over the top layer of strawberries. BINDING FOR JUICY PIES. Cora S. Shultz. For fruit pies where the juice is apt to run over into the oven the following is useful : Tear strips one inch wide from clean old muslin. Dip in water, squeezing lightly, and bind tightly about the edge of the crust. The edge of the under crust must be brushed with water before the upper crust is put on, then both well pressed together. If managed rightly, the juice can come only from the opening in the cen- ter of top crust. After the pie has been removed from the oven, the strips of muslin can be easily torn off. 142 PUDDINGS PUDDINGS. DUTCH APPLE CAKE. Mrs. A. B. Seaman, Denver, Col. One pint flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half tea- spoon soda sifted into the flour, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one-fourth cup butter, one egg, one scant cup milk, four sour apples, two tablespoons sugar

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