Associations to the word «Shortcake»

Wiktionary

SHORTCAKE, noun. A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
SHORTCAKE, noun. A dessert made with such a cake.

Dictionary definition

SHORTCAKE, noun. Very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope