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Breakfast Shortcake

From Most for your money cookbook, 1938

You can use a butter substitute.

Presented as published in 1938. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Most for your money cookbook (1938) by Cora Lovisa Brackett Brown, Cora Brown, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BREAKFAST SHORTCAKE Everybody falls for a berry shortcake, especially strawberry, but to make a good one it's necessary to mix a dough and bake. Easy imitations are made by splitting a store cake and heaping juicy crushed strawberries between layers, but we've discovered a quicker, cheaper substitute that we like, although it also only slightly resembles the real thing. Let's call it Breakfast Shortcake. Fill your individual cereal bowl J4> ^^11 with a good hot cooked cereal such as oatmeal, frumenty, or Pettijohns and plant a big pat of butter in the middle. Have ready plenty of cold strawberries crushed with sugar
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