Sweet Shortcake
From A bill of fare for every day in the year ..., 1892
Presented as published in 1892. 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 A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Sweet Shortcake. Supper— Chipped Beef. Sliced Cucumbers. Bread and Butter. Berries. Cake. Tea. Sweet Shortcake. — Beat a lump of butter the size of an egg to a cream. Add i cup of sugar, z eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, flour enough to make as suit as plain cake and i '4 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in ielly tins. Spread each layer thick with red rasp- berries, sprinkle with sugar and serve with cream. FRIDAY, AUG. Breakfast— Oatmeal with Cream. Broiled Lamb Chops. BS| Warmed Potatoes. Bread and Butter, Coffee. -*■ Dinner— Boiled Cod. Egg Sauce. Potatoes. Scalloped Tomatoes. Lettuce. Bread and Butter. Bananas. Pears, Supper— Stuffed Egg Plant, Bread and Butter, Berries. Cake. Raspberry Shrub. STUFFEn Egg-plant. --Parboil the egg plant and take out the inside. Fry an onion in butter, stir in bread crumbs, salt, pepper, a very little nutmeg and some meat gravy. Fill the egg-plant with the mixture, put in a pan, dust with rolled cracker, put on bits of butter and bake brown. SATURDAY, AUG. Breakfast— Berries. Soft Boiled Eggs. Fried Potatoes. MM Hot Buttered Toast. Coffee, ^^ Dinner^Tomato Soup. Turbot a la Cremc. Potatoes. Corn. Bread and Butter. Water-melon. 5upper— Fried Tomatoes. Bread and Butter. Baked Apples. Cake. Tea. TuRBOT A LA Creme.— Put alternate layers of cold boiled cod and thick cream sauce in a deep buttered dish. Sprinkle in the sauce a little chopped parsley, cover the top with rolled cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Bake until brown. Any kind of left over fresh fish is delicious fixed in tliis way. SUNDAY, AUG. Breakfast— Wheat Germ with Cream. Salt Fish Balls. ^J Sliced Cucumbers. Bread and Butter. Coffee. ^^^ Dinner — Roast of Lamb. Potatoes. Peas. Carrots with Cream Sauce. Bread and Butter. Chocolate Ice Cream, 5upper — Lobster Salad. Bread and Butter, Berries. Cake. Russian Tea. Chocolate Ice Cream. — i quart milk, i pint cream, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs
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