Banana Short Cake

Ingredients

• one-half cupful butter
• one of sugar
• two well-beaten eggs
• a pinch of salt
• a teaspoonful of baking powder
• a pint of flour
• Flavor with vanilla
• sliced bananas flavored with lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream.

2. 2

   Add eggs, salt, baking powder, and flour.

3. 3

   Mix lightly and roll out into a sheet.

4. 4

   Cut into rounds, brush with melted butter, pile on top of each other, and bake in a buttered bag for twelve minutes.

5. 5

   Spread between layers with sliced bananas flavored with lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Banana Short Cake.— BEAT to a cream one-half cup- ful butter and one of sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs, a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with a pint of flour. Flavor with vanilla. Mix lightly and roll out into a sheet about half an inch thick. Cut into rounds about four inches in diameter, and having brushed each one over with melted butter, pile on top of each other and put in buttered bag. Bake twelve minutes, separate, and spread between the layers a thick filling of sliced bananas flavored with lemon juice

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