Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

• 2 scant cups flour.
• 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• 1 full tablespoon lard.
• 1 egg.
• 1 full tablespoon butter.
• Milk.
• 2 level teaspoons B powder.

Method

1. 1

   Mix baking powder and salt into flour, rub in butter and lard.

2. 2

   Beat egg in a teacup, fill with milk, and add to flour to make a soft dough.

3. 3

   Divide, roll thin, spread with butter, place together, and bake.

4. 4

   Split open and spread with sweetened fruit.

5. 5

   Serve with cream.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Mrs. E. J. Jeffress. 2 scant cups flour. V2 teaspoon salt. 1 full tablespoon lard. 1 egg. 1 full tablespoon butter. Milk. 2 level teaspoons B powder. Mix baking powder and salt into flour, rub in butter and lard, beat the egg in a teacup and fill cup with milk, then add this to flour to make a soft dough. Divide in two parts, roll thin and spread with soft butter. Place the 2 together and bake. When done, split open and spread the sweetened fruit. Serve with cream. ^ ’ / 82 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. BANANA PIE. Mrs. J. E. Hillskotter. Bake a crust, slice into it 2 or 3 bananas, over which pour boiled custard made of 1 pint milk. 2 yolks of eggs. V2. cup sugar. 1 heaping tablespoon corn- ^ Vanilla flavor. starch. o Cover pie with beaten whites of the eggs and set in oven to brown. Let custard cool before pouring over bananas. APPLE OR PEACH CUSTARD PIE. Miss Alice Fangenroth. Line a pie pan with good crust, put into it 2-3 cup sugar, mixed well with 2 tablespoons flour. Now slice the apple or peach into this and sprinkle a little sugar on top, add 2 table- spoons water and bake three quarters of an hour. CRANBERRY PIE. Mrs. J. D. Manley, St. Louis, Mo. 2 cups •chopped cranberries. 1 cup raisins. V2. cup granulated sugar. 2 tablespoons flour. y2 cup water. 1 egg. Mix these together. Line a pie plate with rich crust, fill and cover with top crust and bake in slow oven. PUMPKIN PIES. Mrs. Frank Stillwell. cups pumpkin. 1 cup milk. V2 cup sugar. 1 teaspoon flour. 14 teaspoon B powder. Makes- "^o pies. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 14 teaspoon salt.

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