Strawberry Short Cake

Name: Strawberry Short Cake
Ingredients: One cup sugar; 1/2 cup butter; 2 eggs, well-beaten; 1 cup milk; 2 cups flour; 2 1/2 tspns. Rumford baking powder; 1/2 tspn. salt; 1 tspn. vanilla

From The Memorial Hall cook book, 1919

Contributed by Mrs. George W. Hellings.

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Memorial Hall cook book (1919) by Willow Grove Memorial Hall (Willow Grove, Pa.), page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strawberry Short Cake One cup sugar, % cup butter, 2 eggs, well-beaten, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2% tspns. Rumford baking powder, % tspn. salt, 1 tspn. vanilla. Bake in layers. Beat white of egg until stiff, add 2 tblsps. sugar, place strawberries on layers of cake and place icing on top of berries. Serve with fresh cream. — Mrs. George W. Hellings. Strawberry Mousse Cook 1 pt. water with 1 pt. sugar till it threads, then add 6 stiffly-beaten egg whites, whipping continually. Add % pt. straw- berry (or other fruit) juice, and beat till cold. Pack in ice and salt 5 hrs. If desired, add 1 pt. whipped cream, and use only 3 egg whites. — Contributed. _ Tapioca Jelly Soak % cup tapioca in 1 cup cold water over night. Dissolve 1 tblsp. granulated sugar in 1 pt. boiling water (in double boiler), add the tapioca, and cook till clear. Take from fire, and add 2 tsps. lemon juice. Dip glasses in cold water, fill with jelly, and set where cold to form. Serve very cold with sweetened cream. — Contributed. ELSIE E. LIGHTCAP Millinery ROOM 203, TRUST COMPANY BUILDING Cor. York Road and Greenwood Ave. JENKINTOWN, PA. Open Saturday Evenings Willow Grove 130-M Estimates Furnished REDMILE & GRIFFIN Plumbing - Steam and Hat Water Heating WILLOW GROVE, PA. If the cake is made with Good Milk it is a Good one. Try our special "MOUNTAIN VIEW" FARM MILK Guaranteed 5% Fat JOHN C. STUCKERT Willow Grove 156-J DAVISVILLE ROAD, WILLOW GROVE, PA. 70 Try the KNOX GELATINE recipes found in this book. CAKES AND ICINGS Apple Sauce Cake Two cups sugar, 2 cups applesauce, 4 cups flour, 1 lb. raisins, 2 tblsps. lard, 1 tspn. baking soda. Does not require all the flour sometimes, but have batter stiff.— Mrs. Clarence Ely. Apple Sauce Cake One cup of sweetened applesauce, 1 cup butter

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