Strawberry Shortcake Recipes

Grandma's Easy Strawberry Shortcake Recipes Are So Simple To Prepare

Beat the yolks and whites of four eggs together with a scant teacupful of sugar, a pinch of salt, and the grated peel of a lemon. Beat until the consistency of a thick batter; add last about three-quarters of a cup of matzo flour. Bake in two layers.

Pick strawberries, cut them in halves, sugar liberally, fill each layer (this makes two cakes); whip some very rich cream, sweeten and spread on top of the cakes. If you haven't the cream, whip the whites of five eggs with a quarter of a pound of sugar, and spread over the cakes.

Shortcake: 2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/3 cup shortening, 1 egg, milk or water. Sift dry ingredients. Work in shortening. Beat egg in measuring cup, add liquid to fill three-fourths full. Stir in. Pat dough into 2 rounds to fit pie plate. Brush one round with melted shortening. Put second round on top. Bake in hot oven (450°F) 20 to 25 minutes.

Filling: Wash and hull 3 cups strawberries. Add 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Stand 15 minutes. Save a few perfect berries. Crush the rest. Spread between shortcake layers and over top. Garnish with whole berries. Serve with plain or whipped cream. As a "surprise," add cottage cheese [or cream cheese] to whipped cream. This brings out the strawberry flavor.

Old Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

One pint of flour, measured before sifting; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, four of butter, one teacupful of milk. Mix the other dry ingredients with the flour, and rub through a sieve. Rub the butter into the mixture, and add the milk. Butter two tin squash pie plates. Spread the mixture in them, and bake in a quick oven from eighteen to twenty minutes. Mash one quart of strawberries with three-fourths of a cupful of sugar. When the cakes are taken from the oven, split and butter them, and put half of the strawberries and sugar in each cake. Serve immediately.

Sweet Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, two of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, one scant teaspoonful of cream of tartar, a small half teaspoonful of soda. 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 meringue, made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, may be spread over the top layer of strawberries.

Strawberry Shortcake Crust

3 cups flour; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1 egg; 2 teaspoons baking powder; lump of butter size of egg; a little salt. Bake in long pan. When baked, cut open and spread with butter and crushed. Fruit between crusts. --Esther Wolfe

Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

1 cup sugar; 1 egg; 2 cups flour; 1 heaping tablespoon butter; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in 3 layers. Sweeten and crush berries; put between layers. --Mrs. Benj. Kilmer

Individual Strawberry Shortcakes

2 cups flour; 4 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; one-third cup butter; 3/4 cup milk. Divide in two; roll lightly; brush over with melted butter and add other half; cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven; separate layers and add crushed sweetened berries and whipped cream. --Mary J. Burke