Fruit Short Cake Recipe
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Ingredients for Fruit Short Cake Recipe
- ¼ cup butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and egg well beaten.
- Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt, adding alternately with milk to first mixture.
- Beat thoroughly, and bake in a buttered round tin.
- Cool, spread thickly with sweetened fruit, and cover with Cream Sauce I or II.
- Fresh strawberries, peaches, apricots, raspberries, or canned quince or pineapple may be used.
- When canned goods are used, drain fruit from syrup and cut in pieces.
- Dilute cream for Cream Sauce with fruit syrup in place of milk.
- Any shortcake mixture may be made for individual service by shaping with a large biscuit cutter; or mixture may be baked in a shallow cake pan, centre removed and filled with fruit, and pieces baked separately to introduce to represent handles.
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