Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 qt. strawberries
• Reserve 1 white of egg for meringue.

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar and eggs well beaten, vanilla, milk, and flour, sifting it with baking powder and salt.

2. 2

   Bake in 2 layers.

3. 3

   Crush half the berries and put between layers.

4. 4

   Garnish top with the remainder of the berries, and serve with plain or whipped cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup butter 1 salt spoon salt 2 cups sugar 1 cup milk 3 cups flour 2 tsps. baking powder 4 eggs Cream butter and sugar, adding yolks one at a time. Sift dry ingredients twice. Add alternately with milk and lastly fold in stiffly beaten whites of egg. Bake in a moderate oven. _—Mrs. .S., 8S. Wood. PRINCE OF WALES CAKE Black Part— 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup chopped raisins % cup butter 1 tbs. molasses % eup sour milk 3 egg yolks 2 cups flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 tsp. nutmeg warm water % tsp. cloves Sood Bee, CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER KITCHENS White Part— 1 cup flour % cup butter 1% cup corn starch 1 cup sugar % cup sweet milk 1 tsp. baking powder 3 egg whites Bake in layers and put together alternating color. Use 3a boiled icing between layers. —Mrs, Allen Blair. SNOW BALLS 1 cup white sugar 3 tsps. baking powder 1 cup thick cream 1% tsp. almond flavoring or 5 whites of egg any preferred flavoring 2 cups flour Sift dry ingredients, add cream and fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and add flavoring. Bake in small well greased pans and cover with a plain white icing when cool. —Mrs. Allen J. Blair. SPICE CAKE % cup butter 3 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. soda 3 eggs 1 tsp. baking powder 1 cup buttermilk 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup dark Karo syrup % tsp. ginger % tsp. cloves Mix like sponge cake. —Mrs. L. L. Farlow. CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 cups brown sugar 1% cup hot water % pound of butter 2 cups pastry flour 2 eggs % cup of buttermilk 1 sq. of bitter chocolate 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. baking powder Sift sugar, and cream with butter, beat eggs well and add to the creamed sugar and butter. Dissolve the chocolate in the cup of hot water and add. Add the soda to the buttermilk, and baking powder to flour, sifting the flour three times. This will keep moist for days. —Miss Effie Cox. wp Gai CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER. KITCHENS WHITE CAKE 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk % cup butter 3 cups flour 4 egg whites 3 small tsps. baking powder Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add milk and flour slowly. (Have baking powder well sifted thru the flour). Add beaten whites last of all. Flavor with bitter almond. If made right this is as nice as Angel Food. —Miss Effie Cox. WHITE CAKE 7 eggs, the whites, beaten te 2-3 cup butter a stiff froth % cupful of milk 2 cups sugar 2 tsps. baking powder 3 cupfuls of flour Flavor with vanilla if desired. Bake in 3 layers or in a loaf. —Miss Cora E. White. WHITE CAKE RECIPE (Level Measurements Used) 1% cups sugar 2% cups flour % cup butter and lard 4 egg whites 1 cup sweet milk 1% tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. baking powder % tsp. almond extract Process: Cream butter and lard, add sugar gradually stirring constantly. Mix and sift together flour and bak- ing powder. Add to the first mixture alternately with milk. Add vanilla and almond extracts and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Turn into well greased cake pans and bake fifteen minutes in moderate oven. Put to- gether with boiled frosting. —Mrs. A. C. Jones. ORANGE CAKE 2 cups sugar 5 egg yolks 4% cup butter 4egg whites _ 2 cups flour % cup orange juice 2 tsp. Royal baking powder’ Grated rind of 1 orange Filling and frosting: white of 1 egg beaten stiff, add alternately powdered sugar and orange juice until the juice of 1 large orange and 1-2 lemon has been used. It will take from 1 1-2 to 2 cups sugar. —Miss Mamie Farlow. BA 57 oe CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER KITCHENS STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE 2 eggs 2% tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar % tsp. salt % cup milk % tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour % cup butter 1 qt. strawberries Cream butter, add sugar and eggs well beaten, vanilla, milk, and flour, sifting it with baking powder and salt. Bake in 2 layers. Reserve 1 white of egg for meringue.

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