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Strawberry Shortcake

Name: Strawberry Shortcake
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 boxes of nice ripe strawberries; 1y% cups sugar; 1/2 cup water; 2 cups flour; 1^ teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; butter twice the size of an egg

From The Times cook book, no. 2, 1905

Serves 5

(Delicious.)

Presented as published in 1905. 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 Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Mrs. George F, Rathburn, No. 779 Kohler street, Los Angeles.— (Original.) Pick and wash 3 boxes of nice ripe strawberries, add \y% cups sugar and chop with a knife till each berry is cut about once. Add % cup water and stir a little and set aside while you mix the cake. Sift together 2 cups flour, 1^ tea- spoons baking powder, and % teaspoon salt and mix into it butter twice the size of an egg

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