Short-Cake (Scotch)

Ingredients

• Four oz. white sugar
• 0.5 lb. slightly salted butter
• 1 lb. flour

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour and butter with the hands; then add the sugar, and work all into a smooth ball; then roll out until it is an inch thick; prick over with a fork and pinch round the edges, and bake for 0.5 hour in an oven with a moderate fire, in a round or square pan, according to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Short-Cake (Scotch) — Four oz. white sugar, ^ lb. slightly salted butter, 1 lb. flour

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