Shortcake (Delicious)

Ingredients

• 1 lb. butter
• ½ lb. flour
• ½ lb. cornflour
• 1 or 2 eggs
• 2 small teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 2 large tablespoonfuls of fine white sugar
• Some jam, or fresh strawberries

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, and still beating, add the yolks of eggs.

2. 2

   Mix the flour, cornflour, and baking powder together, and add gradually, a little at a time, to the other ingredients.

3. 3

   It may be necessary to add a little milk, as the paste must be rather soft.

4. 4

   Roll out once and put on a well-greased ashet or dinner plate.

5. 5

   Pinch the edges with the fingers, and prick the paste all over with a fork so that it will not rise too high.

6. 6

   Put in a good oven and bake from 20 to 30 minutes.

7. 7

   When cool, fill with jam or fresh strawberries well mixed with sugar, and cover with the whites stiffly beaten, and flavoured with fine white sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

J lb. flour 6 ozs. butter 6 ozs. fine sugar J lb. Sultanas, or Sultanas and cherries. 3 or 4 eggs 2 ozs. orange peel, and a few almonds 2 teaspoonful baking powder A little sweet milk A few drops essence, lemon or vanilla Butter and flour cake tin. Prepare Sultanas, and cut up peel finely. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, drop in one egg and one spoonful of flour, and beat well. Repeat until all the eggs and flour are added. Add milk, baking powder, and essence. Mix well, put into prepared cake tin, and bake in a moderate oven for ij hours. Miss Nancy Bell, 48 Grant Street. 167 SCOTCH SHORTBREAD. x lb. of good powdered butter | 2 lbs. of the best flour 6 ozs. of sifted sugar Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, thoroughly dissolving the sugar, add the flour slowly, working it into a nice dough. Knead this into pans i J inches deep. - Bake slowly in a moderately heated oven till it shows a light brown colour. Mrs. Wm. Lambie. SHORTCAKE (Delicious). 1 lb. butter | lb. flour \ lb. cornflour 1 or 2 eggs 2 small teaspoonfuls of baking powder 2 large tablespoonfuls of fine white sngar Some jam, or fresh strawberries

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