We all know that Mama’s little baby loves short’nin bread, but how do you make the stuff? What is it? Anybody got a recipe?
4 c. all purpose flour, sifted
1 c. light brown sugar
2 c. shortening, softened
Combine flour and sugar in large mixing bowl work in shortening with a pastry blender. Place dough on a bread board and pat to a half-inch thickness. Cut into 2 to 3 dozen bars and bake in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.
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1/2 cup butter, very, very soft
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Add the flour a bit at a time until mixed well. Roll out to 1/2-thickness and cut into “ladyfinger”-like slices. Place on a greased pan and bake for 20 minutes or until just beginning to brown. Cool completely.
Just two recipes I found online. Sounds like regular shortbread, except with brown sugar instead of white sugar. And one recipe uses shortening.
Hm. OK, thanks. 
I just want to make it clear that I’ve never actually had ‘shortening bread’. Or if I have, then I didn’t know it. So I don’t know how accurate those recipes are.
I do make shortbread though. (Actually, the last time – after a very, very long hiatus – didn’t turn out quite right. Still good, though.) Based on the recipes I found, shortening bread seems similar.
hortnin’ bread is johnny cakes or pone bread.