Strawberry Shortcake (100 Year Old Recipe)

Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake

Only Six Simple ingredients in this Old Recipe!

100 Year Old Recipe from Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.

The Thrift Store find of the century!

An Antique Cookbook. Strawberry Shortcake recipe from 1926.

One of my favorite places is..

The Ranch Community Store

A great store working together for a greater mission.

The other day, a very old book found a new home. Edward Hines Lumberyard pocket calendar; 1926 edition.

25 cents!

Hardback outside, with a red cover. 

Inside are bunches of handwritten recipes. As well as clipped out recipes.

So many recipes for things I’ve never heard of!

Like, Sour Cream Cookies. And Norwegian Christmas Bread. Orange Ice Box cookies. Yes! Food is exciting, I know!

Most all these recipes are super simple. With minimalist pantry ingredients.

A century ago, recipes were written in a much shorter form.

Leaving out steps and details that might require some figurin’ out.

Select Oven Temperatures didn’t exist.

Simply put: “Bake in a hot oven”.

**For the strawberries**

Cut and slice 1lb of strawberries and add 2 TBSP Sugar. Store in an airtight medium-size container.

335 Calories per slice. Serves 8.