Is there anything else I should add to this recipe it doesn't seem right.?

Question

Ingredients for Old Fashioned Shortcake

(pastry only)

3 cups flour

4 tablespoons shortening

6 teaspoons baking powder

¾ cup milk

½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Mix flour, salt and baking powder.

Add shortening by rubbing it in lightly with the tips of the fingers.

Add the milk.

Place in cake pan and bake in moderate oven for 20 minutes

I made it and it doesn't look like it is finished yet or something. It looks like just a bunch of goopy flour and I have to put it in the oven next. Is there anything I need to add or something?

Answer 1

You are missing sugart and egg.  Egg will keep it all together and the sugar will sweeten it.

Answer 2

Probably about it. It will be gooey. Kind of like messy biscuit dough

Answer 3

Shortcake:

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup shortening

1/3 cup butter

1 cup milk

melted butter

Preparation:

Sift dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening and butter until mixture is fine. Add milk; stir with a fork until all flour is moist. Turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead gently for 20 seconds. Divide dough into 2 equal portions. Gently roll out or pat each portion to fit a 9-inch round cake pan. Place each portion into a lightly buttered pan; press edges to form a slight ridge. Brush with melted butter. Bake at 450° for 12 to 15 minutes.

This is similar to yours but has more fat in it.

Answer 4

That shortbread is basicly biscuit or scone dough. If you want you can put sugar in it to make it brown better.

It is accurate for the basic shortbread dough.

I would divide it up into individual serving bits. like about 3 inch mounds about an inch thick then brush with melted butter.

That is one ancient recipe if it says to bake in "moderate oven" Ok that means about 350F temperature.

Answer 5

If you're doing an old-fashioned shortcake, it will be more like a biscuit.  The shortening should have been cut into the flour (cold) so that it resembled cornmeal;  then mixed until just moistened.  It's supposed to be lumpier:)

Answer 6

I would have added a bit of sugar with the dry ingredients.  Kinda weird instructions too.  Did you cut in the shortening?  Those directions don't really tell the proper way to do it. (Until it looks like coarse meal).