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Short-Cake (Plain)

From Fruit recipes, 1907

Serves 6

For further directions see Strawberry Shortcake.

Presented as published in 1907. 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

Ingredients

  • To each pint of flour
  • one dessertspoon of shortening
  • one dessertspoon of sugar
  • one heaping teaspoor baking powder
  • a half teaspoon of salt

Method

  1. Roll out and bake in two sheets (either round or square tins), and bake about twenty minutes in a rather quick oven.

  2. Separate the sheets with a fork and pour or spread over them the prepared fruit.

Nutrition per serving

162Calories
5 gProtein
33 gCarbs
1 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHORT-CAKE (Plain) To each pint of flour allow one dessertspoon of shortening (or one tablespoon if a richer dough is preferred), one dessertspoon of sugar, one heaping teaspoor baking pow- der, and a half teaspoon of salt

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