Strawberry Short Cake.—Pick, hull, wash, and drain berries. Sweeten, spread between bottom layers of short cake. Garnish top layer with large whole berries, dust with sugar, and serve with cream or custard.
Raspberry Short Cake.—Prepare as for strawberry short cake.
Cherry Short Cake.—Make as for strawberry short cake, using pitted sweet or tart cherries.
Peach Short Cake.—Pare and slice peaches. Finish as for strawberry short cake.
Banana Short Cake.—Peel and slice bananas. Finish as for strawberry short cake.
Canned Fruit Short Cake.—Any canned fruit, drained from syrup, may be used in place of fresh fruit, finishing as for other short cakes.
Huckleberry Short Cake.—2 cups sugar, ½ cup butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 pint milk, 2 heaping teaspoons Royal Baking Powder sifted into 3 cups flour, 1 quart washed and well-drained huckleberries, more flour to make a very thick batter. Bake in greased dripping-pan, break in squares, serve hot with butter.
Individual Short Cakes.—Make short cake, 2. Roll out ½ inch thick, cut in rounds size of small saucer. Bake and finish as for other short cakes.
Doughnuts and Crullers
These old-fashioned “fried cakes,” as they used to be called, need the addition of Royal Baking Powder to make them light. By its use less shortening is necessary and the cakes are more tender and far more digestible. After it is mixed with the flour the other ingredients are added and the dough quickly rolled out, cut, and at once cooked. The fat should be in a deep pot (to obviate any danger of boiling over), and should be of sufficient depth to cover the dough when first dropped in. It should be smoking hot, or the dough will absorb grease and be soggy. Not more than half a dozen should be dropped in at one time, or the fat will be unduly cooled and some of the cakes submerged during the entire cooking; in which case the cakes when cooked will be greasy and not light. One or two pieces of dough should be cooked first as testers. When done the cakes should be drained on unglazed paper, then rolled in powdered sugar.