Short-Cake

Name: Short-Cake
Ingredients: One quart of flour; one teaspoonful of salt; two of baking powder sifted with the flour; one cup of butter; one large cup of hot milk

From The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking, 1881

For a strawberry or peach short-cake have three tin pie-plates buttered; roll the dough to fit them, and bake quickly.

Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking (1881) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Short-Cake. One quart of flour ; one teaspoonful of salt and two of baking powder sifted with the flour ; one cup of butter, or 218 BBEAD AND BREAKFAST CAKES. half lard and half butter ; one large cup of hot milk

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