English Short Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of soda
• 1 teaspoonful of baking powder
• 3 parts of a cup ot butter or lard
• 1 cup of white sugar
• Wet up like pie paste, using sweet milk.

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add sugar, wet up like pie paste, cut in squares to bake.

2. 2

   Flavor to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Magnet cream separator cook book (1910) by Hamilton Petrie Manufacturing Co. Ltd., page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoonful of soda. Thicken with a cupful of yellow meal and flour enough to make a batter. Pour into a pan and bake in a hot oven. Serve hot, with butter, honey or maple syrup. — Mrs. E. A. Roadhouse, Calgary, Alta. The MAGNET awarded First Prize in the Farm Dairy Section for 10 lbs. butter put up in one pound prints, exhibited by Mrs. Laing, Stone- wall, Manitoba. CHOCOLATE LOAF. Grate X cup chocolate, X cup sweet milk, yolk of 1 egg, X cup sugar. Boil all together till a custard, then cool, mix together 1 cup sugar, X cup butter, 2 eggs beaten, X cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda in a little hot water, 2 cups flour. Stir altogether, then add custard last. Bake in rather a slow oven. (White icing.) — Mrs. John Waters, Jarvis. E. M. Barup, East Pinnacle, Que., 1909, says:— The MAGNET suits me well. It is easily cleaned, turns easy and requires but little oil. BROWN CAKE. Cheap to make and very good. 4 cups of flour, 2 cups sour milk or buttermilk, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup lard, X cup butter, 1 cup currants, 1 cup raisins, 1 tablespoonful mixed spices, 2 teaspoons of soda in X cup boiling water, X teaspoon salt. Bake in a good oven. — Mrs. W. Fry, Cherry Blossom Farm, Ros- seau Falls, Ont., March 16, 1909. MAGNET DOES ITS WORK WITH EASE. Wm. T. Passey, Magrath, Alta., Sept. 23, 1910, says:— Am highly pleased with the MAGNET, as it does perfect work, and does it with ease. ENGLISH SHORT CAKE. 3 cups of flour, with 1 teaspoonful each of soda and baking powder sifted with it, rub 3 parts of a cup ot butter or lard into it, then add 1 cup of white sugar. Wet up like pie paste, using sweet milk. Cut in squares to bake. Flavor to taste. — Mrs. Neil Wilson, Guelph. J. A. Cauchon, Lorrainville, Que., 1909, says:— I like the MAGNET and consider the double supported bowl could not be improved. FEATHER CAKE. 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, X cup butter, 1 small cup milk, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar, 1 teaspoonful soda, — M. Mellett, Union Road, P. E. X, JAM CAKE. 2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, X cup butter, 1 cup benies, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, IX cups flour, 2 tablespoons sour milk, add berries after flour. — Mrs. W. M. Evans, Vancouver, B.C. THE MAGNET MAKES MORE BUTTER AND THE CREAM IS CLEANER AND RICHER. Mr. John Krombein, of Oak Bank, Man., says: — The MAGNET Cream Separator is just as represented in every respect. 1 am well sat- isfied. We make more butter and the butter and cream u much cleaner and nicer. The MAGNET is easy to clean and runs easy a*d skims clean. We declare that to buy a MAGNET is a paying investment to any farmer. BANANA CREAM CAKE. Cream 1-3 of a cup of butter with 1 cup of sugar, a, id the yolks of 2 eggs, X cup of sweet milk and \% cups of flour sifted with 2X level teaspoons of baking powder,

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