Recipe For Making Strawberry, Blackberry, Peach Or Orange Shortcakes

Strawberry Shortcake

1 1/2 cups of flour. 1/3 cup of butter. 1/2 cup of cornstarch. 1/2 teaspoonful of salt. 4 level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Milk as needed.

Sift together the flour, cornstarch, baking-powder, and salt, and work in the butter with a knife, pastry fork or fingers; add milk, a little in a place, to mix a rather soft dough. Divide the dough in halves, and pat out to fit two tins; or bake in one tin, one round above the other, first spreading the lower round generously with butter. Bake separately, if needed, and butter the cakes. Put together with fruit mixed with sugar. Garnish with cream and fruit. Two baskets of strawberries or raspberries, or other fruit in the same proportion, are required.