Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

• One large tablespoon butter
• two of loaf sugar
• one well-beaten egg
• two even teaspoons cream of tartar
• three cups flour
• one small teaspoon soda
• one cup milk
• and strawberries and sugar

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter with sugar, add egg, mix in flour with cream of tartar and soda dissolved in milk.

2. 2

   Bake in a flat pan.

3. 3

   Cool, cut in half, and layer with strawberries and sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strawberry Shortcake. One large tablespoon butter, two of loaf sugar, one well-beaten egg, two even teaspoons cream of tartar, three cups flour, one small teaspoon soda, one, cup milk, and strawberries and sugar. Beat the' butter with sugar to a cream, add the beaten egg, rub the tartar in the flour, dissolve the soda in the milk, add it last; bake in a flat pan in a quick oven; when done let it get cold, cut it in half, cover one layer with strawberries and sugar, lay on the top layer, and dust sugar over it. Poor Man's Wedding Cake. One-half cup butter, one cup brown sugar, four eggs (not separated), two cups very dark molasses, one cup milk

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