Recipe - Elegant Strawberry Torte

3 cup Sifted flour
2 cup Brown sugar; firmly packed
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cup Butter
1 Egg; beaten
1 cup Sour milk or buttermilk
1 teaspoon Soda
One half cup Chopped nuts
1 pt Heavy cream; whipped and
sweetened
1 pt Fresh strawberries; cut or sliced up

Mix together first 4 ingredients, reserve 1 cup crumb mixture. Combine egg,
milk and soda. Add to crumb mixture; stir well. Pour into 2 greased,
paperlined 9inch layer pans. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture, then
add nuts. Bake at 375 for 2530 minutes. Place one layer, nut side up, on
serving plate. Spread with half the whipped cream. Top with cut or sliced up
strawberries. Stack second layer and top as above.

MRS RALPH WALL (ANN)

HOLLY GROVE, AR

From the book High Cotton Cookin', Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0918544149, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.