Chuckwagon: Old Fashioned Shortcake

Old Fashioned Shortcake from an 1891 recipe book entitled “Palatable Dishes.”

For Old Fashioned Shortcake take one quart of nice buttermilk, add to it one teaspoonful of soda, quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of unmelted lard, then stir in enough sifted flour to make as soft a dough as can be handled. Roll out to about half an inch thick, cut into diamonds and bake quickly.

*Courtesy of Chronicle of the Old West newspaper, for more click HERE.