Old-Fashioned Shortcake

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tblsp. vanilla
1/2 cup butter, cut into slices
1 egg
1/3 cup milk

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Grease 8x8 pan.

3. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.

4. Cut in butter with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

5. Beat egg and milk together, then stir in vanilla.

6. Stir wet ingredients into dry and mix well. Mixture will come together to form a thick dough, almost like a sugar  cookie.

7. Press dough into prepared pan.

8. Bake for 20-25 minutes, depending on how "done" you want it to be. Twenty minutes will yield a gooey center, twenty-five will be like a soft cookie, and you can cook longer if you want it more crispy.

9. Cool in the pan for ten minutes before serving. Top with strawberries and whipped cream, or as desired.