Strawberry Short Cake

Ingredients

• % cup of butter
• 3 eggs
• % cup of sugar
• 2 cups of flour
• % cup of milk
• 2 heaping tsps. of baking powder
• 2 — 3 qts. of strawberries
• 1 pt. of whipped cream
• 1 tsp. of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter with sugar, yolks of eggs and milk, gradually work in the flour and baking powder and lastly the beaten whites of eggs.

2. 2

   Bake in 2 layers, each being 1.5 inches thick.

3. 3

   When cool, spread between the layers and on top crushed strawberries mixed with sugar and on this the whipped cream mixed with sugar and vanilla.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of German cooking and baking (1922) by Lina Wachtelborn Meier, page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE. % cup of butter 3 eggs % cup of sugar 2 cups of flour % cup of milk 2 heaping tsps. of baking powder For the Filling. 2 — 3 qts. of strawberries Sugar to taste 1 pt. of whipped cream 1 tsp. of vanilla

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