Peach Shortcake

Ingredients

• two rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one of salt
• one quart of flour
• sufficient milk to make a soft dough
• butter the inside

Method

1. 1

   Sift baking powder and salt with flour.

2. 2

   Add milk to make a soft dough, knead, roll out, and bake for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Pull apart, butter inside, fill with sugared peaches, cover with upper crust, dust with sugar, and serve with cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from My best 250 recipes (1907) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEACH SHORTCAKE Sift two rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one of salt with one quart of flour; add sufficient milk to make a soft dough; knead quickly, roll out in a sheet one inch thick, cut to fit the baking-pan, brush with milk, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Pull the sheet apart, butter the inside

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