Highbridge, Somerset UK 1893 – 1911

Scotch Eggs                                 

Required (for six people) 3 hard boiled eggs, ½ lb. uncooked sausages, 1 raw egg, bread crumbs & frying fat. 

Remove the shells & place the eggs in cold water.  Skin the sausages.  Dip each egg in flour then coat each over with a layer of sausage meat being careful to keep the shape of the egg.  Next, beat up the raw egg on a plate, brush it over the egg then roll in crumbs.  Fry in boiling fat a golden brown.  Drain & serve cut in half on small rounds of fresh or toasted bread. 

Strawberry Shortcake        

Ingredients: ½ lb. flour, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon carbonate soda dissolved in milk & 2 ½ of salt. 

(I think it is 2 ½ teaspoons of salt)

Mode: Mix as light as possible & roll into 2 sheets ½ in. thick.  Lay one on the other & bake for 20 min. in a brisk oven.  Separate 2 crusts & lay strawberries 2“ thick on under sheet.  Lay on other crust cut into triangles & (?) (deglaze or decorate) with sweetened cream. 

At this time period Carbonate of soda is either baking soda or saleratus; they were used interchangeably, and often called the same thing.  When it says lay one on the other & bake, I think it means put in the oven at the same time, not to place the pans or rolled batter on top of each other to bake. 

Brisk oven is; 375 to 400 degrees.   

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