Sour Milk Cakes

The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bre... · Beaty-Pownall, S · 1904

Source: The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bread, cakes, and biscuits
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Ingredients (10)

a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
a pint of sour milk or cream ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
not quite 7oz. of butter or lard ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
sufficient flour to make it all a soft dough ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
butter it generously ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

for serving

sieved jam or pulped fruit may be spread with the butter ↝ Jam [Jams, syrups, toppings]
cream may replace the latter ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
tiny wood strawberries (or, indeed, any other small berries, such as bilberries, dewberries, &c.), dusted with caster sugar and sprinkled with lemon juice, are used with the cream instead of the jam ↝ Strawberries, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
caster sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
lemon juice ↝ Lemon juice, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]

Instructions (5)

Add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a pint of sour milk or cream, and when this is thoroughly dissolved add to it not quite 7oz. of butter or lard, and sufficient flour to make it all a soft dough
Roll it out into cakes large enough to fit the girdle, or the pan they are to be cooked in (or a well-floured and delicately clean frying pan can be used)
Turn as soon as one side is cooked, and when the other side is ready lift the cake off, split and butter it generously, put the two pieces together again, cut it into four, and serve either cold or warm, but not hot
If liked, sieved jam or pulped fruit may be spread with the butter; or cream may replace the latter
When tiny wood strawberries (or, indeed, any other small berries, such as bilberries, dewberries, &c.), dusted with caster sugar and sprinkled with lemon juice, are used with the cream instead of the jam, this scone is the well-known American strawberry short cake.

Original Text · last edited 4 days ago

Sour Milk.
—Add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a pint of sour milk or cream, and when this is thoroughly dissolved add to it not quite 7oz. of butter or lard, and sufficient flour to make it all a soft dough; now roll it out into cakes large enough to fit the girdle, or the pan they are to be cooked in (or a well-floured and delicately clean frying pan can be used); turn as soon as one side is cooked, and when the other side is ready lift the cake off, split and butter it generously, put the two pieces together again, cut it into four, and serve either cold or warm, but not hot. If liked, sieved jam or pulped fruit may be spread with the butter; or cream may replace the latter. When tiny wood strawberries (or, indeed, any other small berries, such as bilberries, dewberries, &c.), dusted with caster sugar and sprinkled with lemon juice, are used with the cream instead of the jam, this scone is the well-known American strawberry short cake. (This is an American recipe.)

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