Strawberry Shortcakes

Ingredients

• Make the usual rule for biscuits
• Crush some ripe strawberries
• sweeten them
• Pass cream with them

Method

1. 1

   Make the usual rule for biscuits, but divide it, unless you wish a good many.

2. 2

   Butter the top of each biscuit; when baked, gently separate them into two layers.

3. 3

   Put a little butter on each half.

4. 4

   Crush some ripe strawberries and sweeten them; arrange the lower halves of the biscuits on a dish, or put one on each plate; cover with the berries, put on the tops, sift sugar over them, and add two or three berries to each.

5. 5

   Pass cream with them.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

strawberry shortcakes; do jou remember your rule for biscuits!" 112 THE FUN OF COOKING * * Indeed I do ! I Ve made those so often I never even look in my cook-book. ' ^ ** Well, then, you may make a panful of those ; only remember to roll the dough out very thin — not thicker than half an inch ; and do not let the biscuits touch each other in the pan. Now, Brownie, here is a platter of cold roast chicken, left from dinner last night, for you to pick off the bones and cut up in little, even pieces about the size of the end of your thumb. Use the white meat first, because that looks best creamed, and if there is not enough, then use some of the dark. Here is the rule : CREAMED CHICKEN 1 large cup of thick white sauce. 2 cups of cold chicken in small pieces. % teaspoonful of salt. % teaspoonful of chopped parsley. 1 shake of pepper. Make the usual white sauce, but use two tablespoonfuls of flour to one of butter, so it will be thick (see your rule). When it is done, add the seasoning and then the chicken; keep very hot, but do not let it boil again. ''You can serve this on squares of buttered toast, or just as it is in little dishes, or on one round platter. ' ' Mildred's biscuits were all ready to go into '"Here Comes Jack with the BerrteB, just in Timei' ^ STRAWBERRY TIME 115 the oven by this time, and Miss Betty said they were lovely, but told her to put a bit of butter on top of each one, so they would be brown. * * Now copy off your rule, ' * she added. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES Make the usual rule for biscuits, but divide it, unless you wish a good many. Butter the top of each biscuit; when baked, gently separate them into two layers. Put a little butter on each half. Crush some ripe strawberries and sweeten them; arrange the lower halves of the biscuits on a dish, or put one on each plate; cover with the berries, put on the tops, sift sugar over them, and add two or three berries to each. Pass cream with them

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