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Short Cake, Sweet, with Soda
Flour, 3 cups; butter, 3 table-spoonfuls; sour cream, or rich clabber (milk becoming thick), 11/2 cups; 1 egg; sugar, 1 table-spoonful; soda, 1 tea-spoonful; salt, 1 tea-spoonful. Directions —Dissolve the soda in a little warm water and add it and the beaten egg to the milk; having put the salt in the flour, cut the butter in small pieces, and work it in smoothly also; mix all, handling as little as possible. Roll quickly and bake in a hot oven. The soda and sour cream will take care of the rising.
Shortcake, Plain, from Light Dough. Prepare the dough as for biscuit, doubling the amount of butter; roll out to make a cake of good thick. ess; let rise and bake in a quick oven.
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