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Sweet Strawberry Short-Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cupful of sugar
• 2 cupfuls of flour
• 1 tablespoonful of butter
• 1 scant teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• small 1/2 teaspoonful of soda

Instructions

Beat the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs, well beaten.

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. Spread a layer of strawberries on one of the cakes, lay a second cake over this, and cover with berries.

Or, a mèringue, made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, may be spread over the top layer of strawberries.

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Source

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book

Categories

Shortcakes.