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Show 1 Mary's Kitchen SHORT ki If you would make an old-fashion-j cd strawberry shortcake for two and not hae moro left over than wasj used follow this rule -i R in i:r: SHQR i ui OK TWO Ono pint berries. 2-3 cup flour 2 desuertspoons butter, 1-8 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1--texspoon sugar, cold water. tl and sift flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Rub In butter With tips of fingers. Add water slow-) ly. cutting It Into flour with a knife Th- dough should be Just -stiff enough to roll on a well floured board with B well floured rolling pin. Divide in equal pnrtu to roll. Roll one-half about 1-2 Inch thick, kep-Ing kep-Ing the dough as round ns possible. Put in small floured pie pan. Spread llghtlj with softened 1. utter. Roll the Other half und fit over tho first in a hot pan. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven and spilt In half. The light covering of eutter makes it much easier to split tho cake Put the lower half of tho cake on a big plate. Spread with softened butter, cover Renerously with pre pared berries. I'ut on tho other half, cover with more berries and serve with sup.ir and cream. n i-iii i i ; i r i .iuutii Hull berries. Put in a colander anil set the colander In a big pan of , old water. The berries will rise to th. top of th.- w'aler. Skim out. re- nii. p colander from watei and put berries back in colander. Wash through fresh water If you lift the colander full of bcr- rl ' irom tin- water the berries are ' crushed against e;ich other. Save three or four of tho finest berrfes to garnish the- top ol the shortbaki I'm le iii- i 1n a large bowl Sprinkle j with sugar. Allow about 1-2 cup sugar to a pint of berries. Crush I berries slightly with wooden potato i masher j i i'ut the bowl in a pan of hot wat r land let stand till ready to serve thoi shortcake. Never spilt and fill a - shortc ike until read) t' serve it. SHOKT4 Mvi : f OR TWO. One and one-half cups flour. 2 j teaspoons baking powder, 3 desert-1 spoons butter, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1-1 I teaspoon salt, cold water to make a soft dough. 1 |