Sweet Strawberry Short-Cake

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• one cupful of sugar
• two of flour
• one table-spoonful of butter
• one scant teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• a small half teaspoonful of soda
• three pints of strawberries
• a cupful of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar together, add beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Mix soda and cream of tartar with flour, rub through a sieve, and stir into the egg and sugar mixture.

3. 3

   Bake in deep tin plates.

4. 4

   Fill with strawberries mixed with sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 177. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one table-spoonful of butter and half a table -spoonful of flour in the frying-pan, and when hot, put in the kidneys. Stir two minutes, then add half a cupful of stock or water. When the dish boils up, add half a table -spoonful of lemon juice. Serve with a garnish of points of toast. Broiled Kidneys. Skin, wash, wipe and split sheep's or lambs' kidneys. Run a small skewer through each, to keep it open. Season with salt and pepper, dip in melted butter and in flour, place in the double broiler and cook six minutes over a bright fire. Serve on a hot dish. Kidneys k la Maitre d' Hotel. Split and cut in two, lengthwise, lambs' or sheep's kidneys. Wash and wipe them. Season with salt and pepper, and dip in melted butter and fine bread crumbs. Run a small skewer through each, to keep it open. Put them in the double broiler and cook about six minutes over a bright fire. Serve on a hot dish with maitre d* hotel butter. Ham and Eggs on Toast. 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Mix the soda and cream of tartar with the flour, and rub through a sieve. Stir into the beaten egg and sugar. Bake in deep tin plates. Four can be filled with the quantities given. Have three pints of strawberries mixed with a cupful of sugar

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