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Strawberry Shortcake, No. 1

Ingredients

• 1 pint of flour
• 1/3 cupful of lard
• a little salt
• milk enough to make a stiff dough
• 1 box of strawberries
• 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoonful of soda

Instructions

Put the salt, soda, lard and cream of tartar, into the dry flour, mix with milk (water will do), divide into halves and roll large enough for a Washington pie tin.

Spread butter over one, lay the other on top, bake twenty minutes.

Hull and wash and mash the berries and sweeten to taste.

Separate the two cakes, butter, and place the berries between.

Serve hot.

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Notes

See also, Strawberry Shortcake, No. 2.

Source

Things Mother Used to Make (1914)

Categories

Shortcakes.