Name: Strawberry Short-cake
Ingredients: 6 pie plates of rich pastry; Stewed strawberries, well sweetened

Strawberry Short-cake

Ingredients

6 pie plates of rich pastry
Stewed strawberries, well sweetened

Directions

Bake a rich pastry in six pie plates.
Spread sweetened stewed strawberries in each layer.
Stack the layers on top of each other, making six deep.
In winter, use preserved or canned strawberries.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Rich pastry: Forms the flaky, sturdy layers that hold the strawberries between them.
Stewed strawberries: Provide moisture and fruity sweetness that soak into the layers and flavor the dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.