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

Strawberry Short-cake

Ingredients

6 pie plates of rich paste
stewed strawberries, well sweetened

Directions

Bake the rich paste in six pie plates.
Spread the well-sweetened stewed strawberries in each plate.
Layer the plates one upon another, creating six deep layers.

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 paste: Forms the crisp, tender layers that hold the strawberries between them.
Stewed strawberries: Provide sweetness, moisture and fruit flavour between the layers.

“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.