Short cake

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons lard
1 cup milk

Directions

Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Add butter and lard and chop until thoroughly blended. Add milk. When thoroughly mixed, divide in halves; put each half into a round, buttered cake tin. Flour hand and pat to fit the tin. Bake ten to twelve minutes in hot oven. Separate the upper portions from the lower portions of each cake with a fork -- never cut with a knife. Spread with butter, fill with filling, and arrange in layers, with filling between.