Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-07
sHuRT-CAKE.
sHoRT-CAKE.
How to Make It OF Strawberry,
Raspberry, Blackberry, Peach'
Huckleberry, Orange, Etc.

Huckleberfy, orange, EXC
n Y. Practical Housekeeper for May.
Al this time OF the year nearly every
restaurant and pastry shop in town dis
nlays the legend, strawberry short
t,ste " and the consumption during the
,wo ar three months vi the season must
ha ENORMOUS. Soon it will be followed
by raspberry short cake, and so on until
the last peach is eaten and the oyster
reign sets. We give lew recipes whlch
will doubtless be acceptable TO our reau'
ers:
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE.
Mix a tablespoonful Of salt with
pound OF -four, chop In three taoie-
snoopfnls of butter; dissolve a tea
snoonful of soda in n little hot water,
and add with a well beaten egg TO
large cup of sour cream or rich "lo?.
pered" milk, and tablespoonful Oh
white sugar. Put all together, manu-
ling as little as possible, ana mix as
soft rs can be rolled. Roll ligntiy ana
Quickly into two sheets, and Dake IN
rIund tins, well greasei, laying one
sheet on the other. When done separ'
ate, they will part where they were
Joined. Lay on the lower sheet thick
LAYER of strawberries and dust with
powdered sugar. III desired strawber.
ries can be placed on top and sugared
"a before. Serve with sweet cream, or
others mentioned elsewhere.
Another: Add half cup OF butter 10
a Quart OF flour, with milk enough 10
make paste to roll, adding teaspoon
full of soda. Bake them, split and GOV.
err with strawberries and powdered
sugar.
Another: Make a biscuit paste, only
using more shortening; put a layer In
the baking pan, spread with iittie
melted butter and dust with flour. Add
another of crust, spread as before, and
80 on until all is used. Bake in quick
oven. When done spread sugared
strawberries between the layers, turn
ing Ithe upper one crust-side down,
spreading with strawberries and pow
dered sugar.
RASPBERRY SHORT CAKE.
Chop up two tablespoonfuls OF lhrd
and three tablespooniuls OF butter into
two quarts of flour, into which you
have siited teaspoonful OF salt. Add
two well beaten eggs aud teaspooniul
OF soda dissolved in hot water TO TWO
and half cups OF sour milk or butter
milk. Put together, handling very lit
tie. Roll lightly and quickly into two
sheets. The upper crust hall an inch
thick. the lower little less. Lay the
latter smoothly in a well creased OAK
ing pan, strew il thickly with rich rasP
berries; sprinkle four or five table
spooniuls OF sugar over them; put on
the rpper crust and bake twenty or
twenty five miactes until lightly brown
ed, but not drieG Eat hot with butter
ami powdered sugar.
The same with sweet milk. Proceed
as above after having silted two tea
spoonidls of cream tartar into the dry
-four. In either case the parts must be
mixed as soft as it can be rolled.
uUCKLEBeRRY sHoRT.CAKE.
Make A cake as for raspberry, fill with
a deep LAYER OF huckleberries and pro-
coed rs before.
BLACKBERRY suoRT-CAKE.
Proceed as above, using a little less
sugar.
ORANGE SHORT CAKE.
Make cake as in the third receipt
for strawberry, and lay in sliced oranges
with powdered sugar. Serve with
Charlotte-Russe or whipped cream.
PEACH SHORT CAKE.
Is made as for strawberry, using
peaches pared, stoned sliced and sugar
ed.
sHoRr.CAEE WITH WHIPPED CREAM.
This is q favorite attendant OF straw
berry short cake with many OF the pas
try cooks. Put as much thick rich
cream as is needed in bowl and set on
the ice till thoroughly cold. Then beat
with all egg, beaten TIL stiff; add 20 1t
powdered sugar in the proportion OF
eight ounces to the quart Of cream
measured before beatingl, mixing gent
~ aud not stirring too much. II can
be favored by adding little OF any
essence.
WITH BEATEN EGG.
Beat up the whites OF as many eggs
as you need with little sugar placed
on the short.caSe. II convenient, dot
ting here and there with cnntec,loners'
sugar If bright red color adds to the
appearance of the dish.
WITH MERINGUE
Beat up the whites OF four eggs and
twenty teaspooaiuls OF powdered sugar
Put on the short-t AXE en- set in the
oven to brown.
WITH cUsTARD.
Make soft clstard and place the
shor, caka in IL and serve Immediately