Blackberry Shortcake—Hot.
2 quarts of sifted flour; 3 tablespoonfuls of butter, and 2 of lard; 2½ cups of buttermilk, or sour, thick milk; yolks of 2 eggs, beaten light; 1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in hot water, and the same quantity of salt.
Rub the shortening into the salted flour. Add beaten yolks and soda to the milk, and make out the paste quickly. Roll into two sheets—that intended for the upper crust half an inch thick, the lower, rather thinner. Lay the batter in a well greased baking-pan; cover thickly with the berries; sugar them; put on the top crust, and bake about twenty-five minutes to a nice brown. Cut into squares and eat—splitting these open—with sugar and butter.
First Week. Thursday.