First Ladies Recipe
Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe from 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.
Mrs.Gerald Ford, First Lady's Recipe
Strawberry Blitz Torte
Ingredients required1 cup sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Meringue:
4 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
strawberries
Preheat oven 350 degrees
Instructions for the Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe
Sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Cream shortening and sugar slowly and cream mixture until light and fluffy.
Beat egg yolks until they are thick and add to creamed mixture. Stir in milk and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and beat until batter is
smooth. Spread into 2 greased 8 inch layer cake pans.
For meringue, beat egg whites, salt and cream of tartar until they stand in soft peaks when the beater is lifted. Add sugar
2 tablespoons at a time, beating very thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla. Lightly pile one half of the margarine mixture over the
batter in each pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees about 35 minutes. Remove from oven, loosen sides of tortes from the pans and
remove them to wire racks, keep the meringue side up. When cool, spread strawberry filling between the layers.
Strawberry filling Combine 1/2 cup of whipping cream and 2 tablespoons confectionary sugar whip until stiff. Fold in one
cup sliced strawberries; spread between layers of Blitz Torte.
