Kellogg Strawberry Dainties Compiled by Mrs. F. E. (C. J.) Beatty

Note: In the following recipes (with the exception of uncooked sun preserves), any light colored syrup may be substituted for sugar by using equal weights of berries and syrup and adding one cup sugar to each quart syrup. If boiling is required, boil slowly.

Serving Strawberries in the South

Folks ’way down South eat strawberries in wholesale lots and make them up in many tasteful ways. A favorite breakfast dish in the South is to sprinkle hot waffles with sugar and then spread over them plenty of freshly mashed strawberries. Another good dish is hot toast moistened with butter and cream and then covered with mashed or cut berries.

The pie-eating members of the family will enjoy the Southern way of making strawberry custard pie. Make your favorite recipe for custard pie with milk, eggs, sugar and grated nutmeg, but leave out the strawberry juice or any acid flavoring; then, just before serving, cut some berries in half and spread them thickly over the top of the pie, and cover with a meringue flavored with lemon juice.

Strawberry Tarts

Line tart tins with nice puff paste, filling with plum pits, corn or some such thing so they will keep their shape while baking. When done, fill with sweetened strawberries and heap up with whipped cream.

Fancy Shortcake

Pour one cupful boiling water over two cups sugar, boil for five minutes, then cool. Separate the whites from yolks of four eggs and beat the yolks until thick; then add the syrup to them, beating constantly; now add two cups flour sifted with one and one-half teaspoons baking powder; add a pinch of salt and one teaspoon lemon juice, then fold in the whites, beaten stiff and dry; spread in two round layer cake tins, bake in a quick oven. When done, remove to warm platter; spread with fine sugar and crushed berries. Place on top a thick meringue of beaten egg whites seasoned with sugar and arrange berries about the cake.

Bottling Sun-Preserved Strawberries

Strawberries hold the color and shape better when preserved in the sun. Weigh the fruit; to each pound allow three-quarters of a pound of sugar; put a layer of sugar, a layer of fruit, another layer of sugar on a large granite or stoneware platter, cover with glass and stand in the hot sun. As the sun cools toward evening bring them in and put them out again the next day. Lift each berry carefully with a fork and arrange them neatly in tumblers or bottles. Boil the syrup for five or six minutes, pour it over the fruit, cover with the glass and let them stand all night in a cold place. Next morning cover the jars with melted paraffine, over which stretch tissue paper and fasten it down with white of egg. When the covers are dry brush them over with water.

Strawberry Cream

Mash one quart berries with one cup powdered sugar and rub through fine sieve; dissolve one and one-half ounces gelatine in one pint sweet milk; strain and add one pint whipped cream and the berry juice. Pour into a wet mould and set on the ice to form.

Strawberry Jam

Take equal parts of berries and granulated sugar, mash them together, put into a preserving kettle and cook for more than half an hour. Put into jars and when cold, seal.

Strawberry Jelly

Add one-third currant or rhubarb juice to the strawberry juice before cooking and proceed as for other jellies.

Canned Strawberries

For every quart of fresh, firm berries allow one teacupful of granulated sugar. Add the sugar in layers and allow the fruit to stand covered for an hour. Bring slowly to the boiling point and let simmer two minutes. Do not stir the fruit and when done dip carefully into cans and seal.

Sun Preserves

To three quarts of cleaned berries use two quarts of sugar. Make a thick syrup of the sugar and when it is boiling up like taffy, turn the berries in and after they begin boiling, let them boil briskly for twenty minutes. Turn out into platters or shallow dishes, putting just a layer of berries and plenty of juice on each dish. Set them in the hot sun until evening, then bring in, let stand until morning and put into clean (and cold) jars or glasses and seal. Any surplus juice may be put out in the sun until it turns to jelly.

If there is no sun or it is too cold, leave the preserves in the plates for two or three days or more and they will thicken and be just as good.

Strawberry Ice Cream

Wash, pick over and hull two boxes berries. Sprinkle with two cups sugar, cover and let stand two hours. Mash and squeeze through cheesecloth; then add three pints thin cream and a few grains salt. Freeze, using three parts finely crushed ice to one part rock salt.

Strawberry Sponge

Beat up one cupful of sugar with one-half cupful of butter, add two well beaten eggs, two-thirds cupful of milk, two teaspoons of baking powder and enough flour to make a stiff batter. Bake in a buttered ring mold in a moderate oven and turn out when ready. Fill the center with sugared strawberries and serve with whipped and sweetened cream.

Strawberry Gelatine

One quart berries, one-half box gelatine, one and one-half cups water, one cup sugar, juice of one lemon, beaten whites of four eggs. Soak the gelatine in one-half cup of water; mash the berries and add half the sugar to them; boil the remainder of sugar and the cup of water gently twenty minutes; rub the berries through a hair sieve; add gelatine to boiling syrup; take from the fire and add berry juice; place the bowl in pan of ice water and beat with egg beater five minutes, add beaten whites and beat until it begins to thicken. Pour into well moistened moulds and set on ice. Serve with cream.

Strawberry Surprise

Line a pie plate with a good crust and fill with strawberries. Sweeten to taste and cover with a sponge batter made as follows: Beat yolks of eggs until lemon colored, add sugar and beat until creamy, then add flour sifted three times and fold in stiffly beaten whites. Bake in a moderate oven. When cool, cover the top with sweetened whipped cream.

Ingredients: 1 quart strawberries, 3 eggs, pie crust, ¹⁄₂ cupful sugar, ¹⁄₂ cupful flour, ¹⁄₂ pint sweet cream.

Plain Shortcake

One quart sifted flour, one-half cup butter and lard mixed, two teaspoons baking powder, sweet milk enough to make a soft dough. Divide into three equal parts, roll out, spread melted butter on each and place on top of each other and bake.

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Strawberry Jelly

One quart of strawberries, one large cup of white sugar, juice of one lemon, one-third of a package of Cox’s gelatine soaked in one cup of cold water, one pint of boiling water; mash the berries to a pulp and strain through coarse muslin. Mix the sugar and lemon juice with the soaked gelatine, stir up well and pour over them the boiling water. Stir until clear; strain through a flannel bag; add the strawberry juice; strain again without shaking or pressing the bag. Wet a mold with cylinder in center in cold water; fill it and set it in ice to form. Turn out upon a cold dish; fill with whipped cream made quite sweet with powdered sugar and serve at once. It is very fine.

Oranged Strawberries

Put a layer of strawberries into a deep dish, cover thickly with pulverized sugar; then a layer of berries and so on until all are used. Pour over them orange juice in the proportion of three oranges to a quart of berries. Let stand for an hour and just before serving sprinkle with crushed ice.

Strawberry Blanc-Mange

Crush two teacups of very ripe berries with a cup of granulated sugar. Press through a fine strainer to remove the seeds. Beat the whites of four eggs so stiff that the dish may be inverted without spilling the contents. Add gradually one-half cup of powdered sugar. Next beat in the juice by degrees and continue until the mass becomes so stiff it stands in ragged peaks. Serve with a soft custard made of the unused yolks, cup and a half of milk and four tablespoons of sugar cooked in a double boiler until thick as cream. Pour custard into a pretty dish and slip the blanc-mange upon it while custard is hot.

Frosted Strawberries

Beat the white of an egg for a minute or so. Dip berries one by one into this, roll in powdered sugar and let dry.

Strawberry Mousse

To a pint of double cream add the juice of a lemon and a cup of strawberry preserve. Beat until thick to the bottom of the bowl. Have ready a three-pint mould lined with lemon, orange or pineapple sherbet. Put the mousse mixture into the center and cover with more sherbet. Adjust the cover over paper and pack in equal parts of ice and salt. Let stand about two hours. Lining the mould with sherbet may be omitted, but it is a great improvement to the dish. Thus lined, it is removed from the mould with ease.

Strawberry Pie

Make a good crust, not too rich, for the undercrust and one more rich for the upper. Fill the pie well with berries, sprinkle generously with flour, then the sugar. Put no water in the pie, but dip the finger tips into water and wet the undercrust all around the edge, running the fingers around until a sort of paste is formed. Then put on upper crust and press down firmly. Do not bake too quickly.

Strawberry Shrub

Pour three quarts of best cider vinegar over nine pounds of fine, ripe strawberries, let it stand for twenty-four hours, then bring to a boil and strain. Add a pint and a half of sugar for every pint of juice, boil together five minutes, then strain again. Put up in self-sealing cans. A tablespoonful or two added to a glass of water makes a delicious and refreshing drink.

Strawberry and Rice Pudding

Boil one-half cupful of rice in milk until done. When nearly cool stir in gently, fine ripe strawberries. Sweeten to taste. Serve with a nice custard or whipped cream.

Fruit Punch

Sugar syrup, rather than sugar in a crude form, is preferable for sweetening any kind of beverage and is especially desirable when the foundation of the beverage is a fruit juice or a combination of several varieties of fruit juices.

Boil three pints of water and three cups of sugar twenty minutes. When cold add a pint of strawberry juice, a cup of orange juice, juice of three lemons and one quart or more of water.

Strawberry Tapioca

Cover one cup pearl tapioca with a pint of cold water and soak two hours. Put it over the fire, add one pint of water and sugar to taste. Cook about thirty minutes or until clear. Pour while hot over a quart of stemmed strawberries and put by to cool. Serve with powdered sugar and cream.

Strawberry Frappe

One quart of fine, ripe fruit, put through a press, and one pound of sugar; let stand until the sugar is dissolved, then add a quart of water and freeze until thick, but not stiff.

Strawberry Sherbet

Boil together one quart of water and one pint of sugar fifteen minutes. Add a teaspoonful of softened gelatine and when cold strain over one pint of strawberry juice and the juice of a lemon. Freeze in the usual manner.

To Can Strawberries

Wash and stem the berries. Fill into jars, jostling down but not enough to break the berries, (have the jar on folded cloth), and when filled, screw on the lid, (partially). Set in a vessel deep enough to come above jars and have board or rack in bottom, then fill almost to top of jars with cold water. Watch closely and let boil one minute, by the clock. Then lift out and fill the jars with a rather thin hot syrup which has been prepared; put on hot rubbers and seal tight.

Strawberry Sauce

One-third cup of butter, one cup powdered sugar, one teaspoon lemon or orange extract. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually and flavoring. To this add one cup strawberry pulp and the lightly beaten white of one egg. Chill thoroughly.

Strawberry Sauce

Cream together butter and powdered sugar. Add flavor and when ready to serve mix in one or two crushed berries to tint the sauce and a generous quantity of hulled berries,—sliced.

Strawberry Jam

Crush berries and add almost an equal weight of sugar. Put mixture in preserving kettle and let come to boiling point. Stir well and when whole mass is boiling, let boil twenty or twenty-five minutes. Then stir into this mixture one tablespoon of cornstarch to every gallon of jam. Wet the starch with enough cold water to thin it good, add to boiling jam and continue boiling for five minutes. Then seal in jars.

Note: I have found Kellogg’s Delicious (The Strawberry That Satisfies) a splendid variety;—unsurpassed for canning, preserving and immediate table use. This variety is a very heavy producer and I recommend it with positive assurance that its berries, whether served in any of the foregoing recipes or in any other manner, will give you a new and lasting impression of how deliciously satisfying strawberries can be.

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