Strawberry Short-cake
Ingredients
Directions
Bake the pie crusts in pie plates until golden.
Spread the sweetened stewed strawberries in each crust.
Layer the crusts with strawberries, stacking them six high.
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
- Pie crusts
- Form the structure that holds the layers of strawberries together.
- Stewed strawberries
- Provide moisture, fruit flavor and sweetness that fill and flavor each layer.
The step that matters
Baking the pie crusts until golden. Crusts baked fully dry and browned hold their shape and resist soaking up the juicy strawberries; underbaked crusts turn soggy and collapse under the stack.
“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.
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