Strawberry Shortcake
Wed, May 19, 2010
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Strawberries will always remind me of my Grandma and my mom. We had a tradition of picking strawberries at Cameron U-Pick Strawberry Farm at least once a summer.
With sore backs and red-stained mouths, hands and clothes, we would return home to make scones for our inaugural strawberry shortcake. The tubs of berries would turn into jams, pies, smoothies and many other treats. But on that first night of strawberry picking, we would always have strawberry shortcake. In my mind, it kicked off the summer season and now it’s a tradition that I am not willing to give up.
Take your family to the U-pick strawberry patch or a local strawberry stand because fresh, local berries are always sweeter, juicier and just plain better than berries that have been shipped from afar to your grocery store.
I usually use homemade scones as the base of my shortcake but the two key ingredients, in my opinion, are the locally-picked strawberries and homemade whipped cream.
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 6 Tbsp butter, softened and cut into cubes
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ pint of whipping cream
- ½ – 1 tsp vanilla, to taste
- ½ Tbsp sugar, to taste
- 2-3 cups sliced strawberries
- A couple spoonfuls of sugar, to taste
- Sift and measure the flour.
- Resift it with the other dry ingredients.
- Work the softened butter cubes into the dry mix with a pastry blender or a fork. Add the milk.
- Turn the dough on to a lightly floured surface.
- Divide the dough into 2 pieces and roll each piece to the thickness of biscuits.
- Cut each dough ball into four wedges (to make 8 scones in total) and place them on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake them at 400-425 degrees for about 15 minutes.
- Mix the ingredients together and beat them on high using a hand-held mixer or a KitchenAid mixer with the whisk attachment. It will take several minutes for the liquid cream to transform into stiff peaks.
- If you beat the whipping cream until it is too stiff you can add more cream and continue beating. This is also a good trick if you are using leftovers the next day. Leftover whipped cream often starts to separate and lose its form. Simply add more cream (if need be) and whip it again.
- Mix the sliced strawberries with a small amount of sugar to round out the sweetness and give the berries a syrupy consistency. I usually only use a small spoonful of sugar, depending on the natural sweetness of the berries.
- Working with one scone at a time, slice the scone in half and place the bottom in a bowl.
- Spoon some berries over the scone and cover it with the the top half of the scone.
- Top the shortcake with a dollop (or two!) of whipped cream.
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Tags: scones, strawberries, whipped cream
What a beautiful strawberry shortcake!! Goodness!! My mother and I just went to a berry farm and found blackberries but no strawberries (which I just found the latter is not a fruit! Cool!).
Great photos. There is nothing like homemade whipped cream and fresh, local strawberries. Homemade scones aren’t bad either!
Thank you, Memoria. And thank you for sharing that interesting fun fact about strawberries!