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And there was never was anything that tasted better than my mother's "firecake," a short-cake spread on a smooth piece of board, and set up with a flat-iron before the blaze, browned on one side, and then turned over to be browned on the other.
And, as they reached the place where the flint-like wall had been, they saw a strange sight. "Bless my strawberry short-cake!" gasped Mr. Damon. "What a hole!" "It is a hole," admitted Tom, in a low voice. "A bigger hole than I dared hope for." For a great cave, seemingly, had been blown in the face of the rock wall that had hindered the progress of the tunnel. A great black void confronted them.
And the great surprise came at last: a SHORT-CAKE: a great, big, red, juicy, buttery, sugary short-cake, with raspberries heaped up all over it.
Hubbard thought no woman, Venus or not, ought to be ashamed of making good short-cake; if they were bad, that would be a different matter. "Well, Charlie, now you have seen all those paintings and figures you used to talk so much about, what do you think of them? are they really so handsome as you expected?" asked his sister.
"You could cook a Thanksgiving dinner in this stove, just as easy as not," said Jasper, putting into the oven something on a little cracked plate that would have been a pie if there were any centre; but lacking that necessary accompaniment, probably was a short-cake. "Just as easy as not," he repeated with emphasis, slamming the door, to give point to his remarks.
Add the milk, and roll out the dough, cutting in small square cakes and baking to a light brown. For a strawberry or peach short-cake have three tin pie-plates buttered; roll the dough to fit them, and bake quickly. Fill either, when done, with a quart of strawberries or raspberries mashed with a cup of sugar, or with peaches cut fine and sugared, and served hot.
Sharon I had visited, fair as Berkshire, but less an old story; I had lingered about the twin lakes of Salisbury; I had carried away many sweet memories of Warramaug and its mountain; and I now found myself in the neighborhood of Gramley Bridge, eager for fresh water, clean towels, and the plenty of a country tea-table, not averse to strawberry short-cake, or the snowy delights of cottage-cheese.
"The screen door was locked so I left youse yer milk on top of the ice-box on the back porch. Thought like the hired girl was upstairs an' I could git the tickets to-morra." I explain about the cream, adding that it is wanted for short-cake. The explanation does not seem to cheer him. He appears to be a very gloomy and reserved milkman.
And breakfast with trout and short-cake short-cake with cream, mind you! in New England in June, when the windows open on the grass and the wood-thrushes are calling, is just about as near paradise as you can get in this old world. Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell With June the Pride and the Hope came home from school.
"They are wonderful!" exclaimed Charlie, with animation; putting down a short-cake he had just buttered. "Wonderful! There is no other word to describe them." Mrs.
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