Breakfast Shortcake

Ingredients

• Sift and mix thoroughly a scant quart of flour
• 2 heaped teaspoonfuls Cameo baking powder
• i teaspoonful of salt
• I teaspoonful of sugar
• i tablespoonful of lard
• and butter
• sweet milk enough to form a dough

Method

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   Roll out to less than half an inch thick and bake in light layer cake pans; prepare filling with chopped meat and potatoes, heat with butter, water, milk, salt, and pepper; thicken with flour and butter; split cakes, butter, and spread filling.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicate dishes (1896), page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i tablespoonful of lard ; add I teaspoonful of salt and i well-beaten egg. Moisten with just enough sweet milk to make into dough, not too stiff" ; roll out and bake on greased griddle ; when it is cooked on one side turn it over and let it cook till a pale brown on the other side; then split it open, butter it and put together again ; cut it into 3 cornered pieces and serve it hot. WALEUTINr^ VALENTINE & GOMFflNY, YMr R ISHLO Coacb and Car Varnishes and Colors. 42 BREAKFAST. PANCAKES. Soak 2 or 3 slices of dried bread in a pint of sour milk over night; in the morning add a small half teaspoonful of baking soda and salt, one egg, flour enough to make a thin batter. Serve with syrup. HOMINY MUFFINS. Hash I cup of boiled hominy fine with a fork, add i cup of corn meal, half a cup of milk, 2 teaspoonfuls melted butter, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, i egg, i teaspoonful Cameo baking powder. Beat thoroughly and hard. Put into gem pans and bake fifteen minutes. A. R. CORN MUFFINS. Beat 2 eggs very light, add i teaspoonful of melted butter, I tablespoonful of brown sugar, 2 teacupfuls corn meal, i heaping tablespoonful of flour, to which add i tea- spoonful of Cameo baking powder and a cupful of milk. Mix thoroughly, pour into greased muffln tins and bake in a quick oven. FLANNEL CAKES. One egg, well beaten, butter size of a walnut, % pint of sour milk, }4 teaspoonful of soda, 3 tablespoonfuls of flour, I tablespoonful of corn meal, a little salt. M. F. Reeves "Use Imperial French Poultry Seasoning." BREAKFAST. 43 RICE WAFFLES. To a pint of soft-boiled rice add i teaspoonful salt and a pint of flour, into which 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder has been sifted. Beat the whites and yolks of 2 ■eggs separately; add to the yolks a large cup sweet milk and pour into the rice with a teaspoonful melted butter. Add the beaten whites last. Beat gently until smooth and bake without delay. SPANISH BUNS. Two eggs, 2 cups brown sugar, ^ of a cup of butter, I cup of milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of Cameo baking powder, 2 teaspoonfuls ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls ground cloves, 2^ cups of sifted flour. Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, well beaten, then the milk, and lastly stir in the flour, sifted with the cinnamon, cloves and bak- ing powder. Form into small rolls and bake in inoderate oven twenty minutes. For frosting use the whites of 2 eggs, I teaspoonful of cinnamon, i of cloves and thicken with brown sugar. Mother's. BREAKFAST SHORTCAKE. Sift and mix thoroughly a scant quart of flour, 2 heaped teaspoonfuls Cameo baking powder, i teaspoonful of salt, I teaspoonful sugar; rub into this i tablespoonful each of lard and butter

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