Pine-apple Short Cake

Ingredients

• a very ripe, finely flavored pine-apple
• butter the size of a small egg
• very little salt
• sufficient flour for one pie dish

Method

1. 1

   Peel and slice the pineapple, sprinkle with sugar, and cover.

2. 2

   Mix flour, butter, salt, and baking powder, then press into a pie plate.

3. 3

   When serving, split the cake and add pineapple between layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pine-apple Short Cake.— Two hours before bringing the cake on the table take a very ripe, finely flavored pine-apple, peel it, cut as thin as wafers, and sprinkle sugar over it liberally, then cover it close. For the short cake take sufficient flour for one pie dish, butter the size of a small Q.^%, 2l very little salt

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