Recipe - Strawberry Dessert Cake

Three fourths cup Sugar plus
6 tablespoon Sugar
2 cup Flour plus
3 tablespoon Flour
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
One half cup Shortening
2/3 cup Milk
4 cup Fresh strawberries; cut or sliced up
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 Egg; beaten
One fourth cup Softened butter

Sprinkle One half cup sugar over strawberries, let stand. Sift 2 cups flour,
baking powder, 6 Tablespoons sugar & salt. Cut in shortening with pastry
blender or 2 knives until particles are size of peas. Combine egg & milk,
stir into flour mixture. Blend. Spread dough in wellgreased pan. Spoon
berries & juice over top of dough. Blend together butter, One fourth cup sugar & 3
Tablespoons flour. Drop mixture by spoonfuls over strawberries. Bake 3540
minutes at 400. Serve warm with cream.

MRS WILLIAM (CHERYL) MARTIN

From the The Bliss of Cooking Returns, Fort Bliss Officers Wives Club,
Ft. Bliss, TX. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.