The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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Strawberry Short-Cake

Make a nice paste for the crust; roll out in thin cakes about the size of a breakfast-plate; put in a layer of strawberries with a light sprinkle of sugar, then another cake of dough, another layer of strawberries and sugar, with a top layer of dough; bake it slowly in an oven or stove, and eat for lunch or dessert, with sugar and butter sauce. This is the simple way to make strawberry short-cake; any other acid berry may be treated in the same manner. usual way for other fruits is to make them into tarts; but try cherries, stoned and made into a short-cake, and after the recipe for Grandmother's Short-cake. The

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