Name: Strawberry Short-cake
Ingredients: rich paste for pie crust (enough for 6 pie plates); stewed strawberries, well sweetened

Strawberry Short-cake

Ingredients

rich paste for pie crust (enough for 6 pie plates)
stewed strawberries, well sweetened

Directions

Bake the rich paste in pie plates until golden.
Prepare six pie plates with the baked crusts.
Spread the sweetened stewed strawberries in each crust.
Layer the crusts 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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Strawberry Short-cake