Recipe - Rich Shortcake

2 cup Allpurpose flour; sifted
One fourth cup Sugar
3 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
1 ds Nutmeg
One half cup Butter
1 Egg; slightly beaten
1/3 cup Milk

Preheat oven to 450F. Lightly grease an 8 by 1 One half inch cake pan. Combine
first five ingredients in large bowl. With a pastry blender or two knives,
cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Add egg, stirring
with fork until well combined. Add milk all at once, stirring until dough
leaves side of bowl. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface. Knead gently
about ten times. Pat dough evenly into bottom of pan. Bake 15 to 20
minutes. Let stand in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes. Turn out of pan and
cut into squares or rounds. Serve with strawberries and whipped cream.

Recipe by: McCall's Cookbook Collection Dessert Discoveries

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "Barbara Zack" bzack@leading.net on May
10, 1998