Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Strawberry Shortcake. [ARTICLE]

Strawberry Shortcake.

Make a good soda biscuit dough with buttermilk, sour milk and cream, or sour milk alone, using soda witli the sour milk, or cream or buttermilk, and baking powder, or soda and cream of tartar if sweet milk is used. Roll about one inch thick and make in a quick oven. When nicely browned slip in on a large platter, and with a very slim, sharp knife divide the cake horizontally into three layers; butter the bottom piece liberally, and put on a thick layer of berries; sprinkle on plenty 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.