Name: Traditional Strawberry Shortcake
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes: 8-portion cake
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 tsp baking powder; 300 ml / 10 fl oz double cream; 60 g / 2 oz sugar; 1 egg; 2–3 tbs caster sugar; 60 g / 2 oz butter; 4 tbs milk or water; 1 tsp icing sugar; 230 g / 8 oz self-raising flour; 1 kg / 2 lbs ripe strawberries; 30 g / 1 oz butter, melted

Preparation info

Makes:
8
-portion cake

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

A famous North American cake, this is my mother’s recipe, entitled ‘Old-fashioned’ in her 1929 copy of Anyone Can Bake. As a child my job was to pick and prepare the strawberries while she made the cake. Then I’d watch her pull apart the layers, cover one with the fruit, the other with thick cream and then sandwich them. Serve the cake straight away while warm.