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Apricot Shortcake

From The Rural cook book, 1907

Serves 1

A sweet sauce can be made with fruit juice, cornstarch, butter, and lemon juice.

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apricot Shortcake, — Drain the juice away from the fruit, and cut it in small pieces. Set tn a warm place and proceed to mix the cake. This calls for one ci^iful of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two' teaspoonfuls of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of salt sifted together. Into this work four tablespoon fuls of butter, add three-fourths of a cupful of milk

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