Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — Strawberry Shortcake. [ARTICLE]

Strawberry Shortcake.

Make a good soda biscuit dough with buttermilk, sour milk and creiim, or sour milk alone, using soda with the sour milk, or cream or buttermilk, and faking powder, or soda and cream of tartar IPsweet tnllie'ft used. Roll about one inch thibk in a qulelj oven. When nicely browned slip in oii a large platter, and with a fiery slim! sharp knife divide the cake horizontally into three layers; butter the bottom piece liberally, and put on a thick layer of berries; sprinkle bn piejrty- of sugar and moisten well with sweet cream; then butter the middle layer of the under side and place over the berries; butter the top of this; cover with berries, sugar and cream ns before, and put on the buttered top crust. Unless this Is very tender moisten with cream or cover it with sweetened whipped cream and serve with whipped cream.