Shortcake No. 2 Recipe

Ingredients for Shortcake No. 2

• 4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup butter and shortening mixed
• ¼ cup milk

Instructions

1. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; cut and rub the shortening in, add the milk; bake in two long biscuit tins, marking off in squares before baking.
2. Bake in a quick oven until a good brown.
3. Use a generous quantity of fruit for each layer, dust thick with powdered sugar, pile whipped cream on the top layer just before serving.
4. If it is wanted crisp and short like pastry, the amount of shortening is doubled and water used to mix rather stiffer than before.
5. All butter makes it more crisp than shortening.