Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-15
SHORT-CAKE.
| How to Make it of Strawberry, Raspberry HuckIe
| berry, Blackberry, Orange, Peach, Etc.

How to Make it of Strawberry, Raspberry, HuckIe-
berry, Blackberry Orange, Peach, Etc.
(From the New York Practical Housekeeper.]
At this time of the year nearly every
restaurant and pastry shop in town dis
plays the legend strawberry Short
Cake" and the consumption during the
two or three months of the season
must be enormous. Soon it will be
followed by raspberry short-cake, and
so on until the last peach is eaten and
the oysters reign sets in. We give a
few recipes which will doubtless be &C
ceptable to our readers:
STRAWBERRY sHoRT-CAKE.
Mix saltspoonful of salt with
pound of -four, chop in three table
spoonfuls OF butter; dissolve q tea
spoonful OF soda in little hot water,
and add with well beaten egg to a
large cup OF sour cream or rich "lop-
pered " milk, teaspoonful of white
sugar. Put all together, handling as
little as possible, and mix as soft as can
be rolled. Roll lightly and quickly
into two sheets, and bake in round
tins, well CREASED, laying one sheet on
the other. When done separate, they
will part where they were joined. Lay
on the lower sheet a thick layer of
strawberries and dust with powdered
sugar. If desired strawberries can be
placed on top and sugar as before
Serve with sweet cream, or others men
toned elsewhere.
Another: Add half cup of butt r
to quart of -four, with milk enough
to make paste to roll, adding tea
spoonful of soda. Bake them, split and
cover with strawberries and powdered
sugar.
Another: Make biscuit paste, only
using more shortening; put a layer in
the baking pan, spread with a little
melted butter and dust with -four. Add
another crust, spread as before, and so
on until all is used. Bake in a quick
oven. When done spread sugared
strawberries between the layers, turn
ing the upper one crust side down,
spreading with strawberries and pow
dered sugar.
HUCKLEBERRY SHORT GALE.
Make cake as for the raspberry, fill
with deep layer of huckleberries and
and proceed as before.
BLACKBERRY SHORT 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.
SHORT-CAKE WITH WHIPPED CREAM.
This is 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 an egg, beating till stiff; add to it
powdered sugar in the proportion of
eight ounces to the quart of cream
(measured before beating,) mixing gent
ly and not stirring too much. 1t can be
favored by adding little of any essence.
RASPBERRY SHORT CAKE.
Chop up two tablespoonful of lard
and three tablespoonful of butter into
two quarts of -four, into which you
have sifted tablespoonful of salt. Add
two well beaten eggs and teaspoonful
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 half an inch
thick, the lower little less. Lay the
latter smoothly in well creased bak-
ing pan, strew it thickly with rich
strawb erries; sprinkle four or five table
spoonfuls of sugar over them; put on
the upper crust and bake twenty or
twenty five minutes until lightly Drowned
but not dried. Eat hot with butter and
powdered sugar.
The same with sweet milk. Proceed
as above after having sifted two tea
spOOnflls of cream tartar into the dry
-four. In either case the parts must be
mixed as soft as it can be rolled.
WITH BEATEN EGG.
Beat up the whites of as many eggs
as you need with little sugar placed
on the short-cake. If convenient, dot
ting here and there with confectioners'
sugar of bright red color adds to the ap-
pearance of the dish.
WITH MERINGUE.
Beat up the whites of four eggs and
and twenty teaspoonfuls Of powdered
sugar. Put on the short-cake and set in
the oven to brown.
WITH CUsTARD.
Make soft custard and place the
short-cake in il and serve Immediately.
PEACH SHORT CAKE.
Is made as for strawberry, using
peaches pared, stoned, sliced and
sugared.