Americandessert

Fruit Shortcake

Name: Fruit Shortcake
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: three heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one quart of flour; loz. of butter; one pint of milk

From Bread, cakes, and biscuits, 1902

Use fresh or canned fruit, marinated in lemon juice and sugar.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Shortcake. — Sift together three heaped teaspoon- fuls of baking powder with one quart of flour (or the Eureka flour may be used instead with capital results), and rub into it loz. of butter. Work this to a paste with one pint of milk

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