Royal Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

• two-thirds pint of pulverized sugar
• half pint butter
• grated rind of half a lemon
• five eggs
• pint flour
• two teaspoons orange juice

Method

1. 1

   Make a batter as in Mystic Orange Cake and put in square pans to the depth of three quarters of an inch; when baked cut in two and spread bottom layer with part of a filling made as follows: beat whites of four eggs to a foam, add two-thirds pint of pulverized sugar and beat till perfectly stiff.

2. 2

   Now cover this with a layer of even-sized berries, tops up and sprinkle with sugar; put other layer on this with top next berries and cover the cut side with the filling and berries as before; cut in squares and serve with ice-cold cream, sweetened and flavored with orange juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 430. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oyal Strawberry Short-cake^ make a batter as in Mystic Orange Cako and put in square pans to the depth of three quarters of an inch ; when baked cut in two and spread bottom layer with part of a filling made as follows ; beat whites of four eggs to a foam, add two-thirds pint of pulverized sugar and beat till perfectly stiff". Now cover this with a layer of even-sized berries, tops up and sprinkle with sugar; put other layer on this with top next berries and cover the cut side with the filling and berries as before ; cut in squares and serve with ice-cold cream, sweetened and flavored with orange juice. Whipping the cream makes it more delicious. Whipped cream maybe used also for filling. Another batter for layers is two-thirds pint powd- ered sugar, half pint butter, grated rind of half a lemon, five eggs, added one at a time, pint flour and two teaspoons orange juice

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