dsi1 wrote:
> On 5/1/2010 4:23 PM, Christine Dabney wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 May 2010 14:27:36 -1000, > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have never made a strawberry shortcake with a biscuit type base.
>>> Perhaps I should try it one day. When I would make this decades
>>> ago, I'd use a milk spongecake. Boy, did I make a tasty spongecake!
>>> Nowdays, if I were to make it, I'd probably poke a few holes on the
>>> top and dump on a syrup of condensed milk and milk and then create
>>> a strawberry shortcake with this faux tres-leches base. That would
>>> be tasty! Of course, all that milk would probably kill me - what a
>>> way to go!
>> No, no, no, no,no NO!!!! That is not shortcake..at least not to this
>> GRITS girl. Gotta have the biscuits... Please try it..it can be a
>> real revelation..
>>
>> Christine
>
> Well I can make sweet biscuits easily enough. I used to be into
> biscuits served with uncooked strawberry jam. Man, that was tasty! I
> never have made biscuits with butter and cream. That certainly would
> be tasty. I have made scones with butter and cream - that was tasty.
> I guess I could assemble a strawberry shortcake with scones. :-)
>
> Paula Deen's strawberry shortcake recipe starts out with an angel food
> cake - how strange is that?

Actually, scones are very close to shortcake recipes that I've used. With
some it's really a matter of naming at the end.

Keith



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