Strawberry Shortcake. (No. 1.)

One quart of flour, three tablespoonfuls of butter, one large cup of sour cream, or very rich loppered milk, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of white sugar, one teaspoonful each of salt and soda. Or, you can use sweet milk, and three teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder. Roll out, and lay one sheet of paste upon the other and bake until done. While warm - not hot - separate these. They will come apart easily, just where they were joined. Lay upon the lower a thick coating, several deep, of strawberries; sprinkle powdered sugar among them; cover with the upper crust.

Strawberry Shortcake. (No. 2.)

Before making the cake, have the berries in and cream for spreading in readiness. Pick out a dozen or more of the finest berries and reserve them to ornament the top of the cake; put the rest in layers, with sugar and a little lemon juice, cover them and let them stand at least one-half hour. Take a coffeecup-ful of thick, sweet cream, whip it with an egg-beater, till stiff, and sweeten to taste. For the cake, take two cupfuls of sour cream, a beaten egg, a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of soda; put one teaspoonful of baking-powder in the flour and sift in sufficient to make a stiff batter, pour into four jelly cake pans, spread evenly and bake quickly. Spread the cakes with butter and put plenty of berries in the layers between them; spread some of the thick whipped cream on each layer of berries, but reserve enough to lay over the top a thick coating. On this arrange the fresh berries that were saved out, in clusters or otherwise. This dish is beautiful as well as delicious.

Orange Shortcake

One pint of flour, two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder, sifted through the flour, with one teaspoonful of salt, a piece of butter the size of an egg, rubbed through the flour; beat one egg in a coffeecup and fill it up with sweet milk and stir into the flour, roll it out on the moulding board into two cakes, and lay one cake upon the other and bake until done. In the first place, before making the cake, slice the oranges very thin in a deep bowl and put plenty of sugar over them, and let them stand while you are making the cake. When the cake is done, separate the two pieces, and spread thickly with orange, also put a layer on top of the cake. Or if you wish you can frost the top. Serve with orange sauce. Blackberry shortcake is made in the same way.

Blackberry Shortcake

Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, one heaping teaspoonful of Equity baking-powder. Mix like cake, and fill four tins as for jelly cake. Cover the top layer with frosting.