Short Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pint flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 1/2 cups sweet milk
• 2 tablespoons butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix dry ingredients, add butter as for pie and then add milk.

2. 2

   Half the recipe makes a small short cake, enough for two people.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Short Cake 2 cups berries, measure after mashing 2 cups sugar, pulverized 2 egg whites, well beaten Beat sugar into berries, then beat in whites. Mix thoroughly. Cut any light layer cake into small squares, taking two squares for each person. Cover one piece with ice cream, put second piece on top cover it with ice cream, and put the above mixture over this. Harriet Waters (Lambda Nu). Short Cake 1 pint flour M teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar \\i cups sweet milk 2 tablespoons butter

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