Name: Strawberry Shortcake
Ingredients: one layer of berries quite thick; one cake to each person

Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

one layer of berries quite thick
one cake to each person

Directions

Make a fine sponge cake and bake in very small round pans. When baked put on one layer of berries quite thick with sugar, and then cover with a layer of sponge cake and sift sugar over. The pans in which these are baked should be the size around of a saucer, and served as above described ; one cake to each person with cream handed.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). 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. See the original page.