Strawberry Short Cake 1

Ingredients

• £ lb. flour
• 2 oz. butter
• £ lb. sugar
• 1 tea-sp. baking powder
• 1 egg
• About 1 gill milk
• Grated lemon rind
• 1 gill double cream
• £ lb. strawberries
• Sugar

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter until light and creamy.

2. 2

   Sieve the sugar and mix with grated lemon rind.

3. 3

   Add this to the creamed butter, then the egg and a little flour, mixing well.

4. 4

   Mix the baking powder with the remainder of the flour, and add gradually with the milk.

5. 5

   Bake in two lined sandwich cake tins until browned and firm.

6. 6

   For filling, whip the cream, sweeten to taste, and add flavouring if liked.

7. 7

   Husk and slice the strawberries, spread cream on one cake, layer with strawberries and more cream, then top with the other cake and remaining cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 941. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strawberry Short Cake, 1 £ lb. flour. 2 oz. butter. £ lb. sugar. 1 tea-sp. baking powder. 1 egg. About 1 gill milk. Grated lemon rind. Filling. 1 gill double cream. £ lb. strawberries

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