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SongofJoy57 Knows Their Stuff Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Location: Foothills of North Carolina Z = 7a & 7b (Map) Posts: 751 PlantStew: 46
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: 1930s Recipe - Strawberry Shortcake
Old Timey Strawberry Shortcake
Description:
This is the way my Grandma Pruitt made strawberry shortcake.
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
1 egg
1 cup of milk
butter to taste
strawberries
sugar
Directions:
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Rub butter into flour mixture. In another bowl, beat egg, and mix with milk. Stir this into flour gradually to make a smooth dough. Spread dough into a greased pan, and bake in a quick oven (about 400) 20 to 30 minutes until golden. When done, take it out of the oven, and turn on a hot plate. Split it open (sideways: side to side), and slather it with butter. Spread lower half with strawberries, and sprinkle with sugar. Replace top half. Spread top half with strawberries, and sugar again. You can serve this hot or cold.
I remember walking up on the hill in the hollar with my grandmaw in Virginia, and helping her pick wild strawberries . . . if you have never tasted them . . . there is nothing to compare although they don't get very big at all.
Sjoerd Enlightened One Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Location: West - Friesland (Map) Posts: 3497 PlantStew: 93
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject:
Wow...my grandma had one of those.
Looking back I am just amazed at how she could cook so perfectly on it.Asd a child, you just take it forgranted.
It must have been a real talent.
It can be difficult with gas or electricity...or induction.
SongofJoy57 Knows Their Stuff Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Location: Foothills of North Carolina Z = 7a & 7b (Map) Posts: 751 PlantStew: 46
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:
So true . . . each one brings out a different result for me . . . and it takes a little time to learn to cook on each one. For some reason I am starving at this point . . . and it all started with scrolling down to those two plates of shortcake of yours Sjoerd!!!! I believe I could eat a bear if I had one cooked.
That has been copied and pasted to my notebook! And i have 2 woodburning stoves complete with cook burners and oven. Think i'll do the modern oven instead,lol.
When i go for my hikes with Balder, there is always wild strawberries, but so far they aren't out yet,,,
I'll just sit and drool for a while i guess.....
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lol,, i agree Song,, but they never make it home,,i pick, i eat, i pick another, i have to taste it just to make sure, so i pick another, i eat that too. lol,, they never make it home.
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Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Location: Western Norway (Map) Posts: 6581 PlantStew: 10015
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:
Your cake sounds delicious. The degrees are in F I guess? That'll be about 200 deg C, and I shall have to buy the strawberries for it. All the wild strawberries we find are eaten almost before they're picked.
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I make shortcake that way. dr doesn't like the sweeter cake. I do make mine into biscuits instead of baking it in a square pan. They are sure yummy. Strawberries have been cheap lately because so many are coming from California now. It doesn't help my diet a lot though. dooley
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 23
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:
i never really made a recipe for strawberry shortcakes i just buy those hostess angel cake cups and but strawberrys wit sugar and whip cream but im really want to try this
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