Name: Individual Short Cake
Ingredients: a spoonful of whipped cream; two large berries cut in halves; 82 grayville cook book

Individual Short Cake

Ingredients

a spoonful of whipped cream
two large berries cut in halves
82 grayville cook book

Directions

Make baking powder biscuit and sweeten slightly. Roll out an inch thick, cut in diamonds, squares or circles and bake in a hot oven. When done break open, never cut, butter them and put mashed and sweetened berries with one or two large berries cut in halves, sprinkled with powdered sugar on top, and the mashed berries between, and if wished, crown each with a spoonful of whipped cream. — Daisy Nash.

By United Methodist Church (Grayville, Ill.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.