- 1 cup warm oatmeal
1 cup flour
¼ cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
⅓ cup milk
1 egg
1 to 4 tablespoons melted butter
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt; add oatmeal and work until well mixed. Add remaining ingredients. Beat well. Bake in hot buttered gem pans twenty minutes.
SHORTCAKES
Shortcake
- 2 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons lard
1 cup milk
Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Add butter and lard and chop until thoroughly blended. Add milk. When thoroughly mixed, divide in halves; put each half into a round, buttered cake tin. Flour hand and pat to fit the tin. Bake ten to twelve minutes in hot oven. Separate the upper portions from the lower portions of each cake with a fork—never cut with a knife. Spread with butter, fill with filling, and arrange in layers, with filling between.
Orange Shortcake
Peel oranges, cut in slices. Sweeten to taste and use for filling for shortcake.