This is from my very old cookbook “Fun with Cooking”, by Mae Blacker Freeman. It features a 50’s-era teenage girl with ribbons on either side of her head showing us how to cook her favourite things. You can also modify this recipe for strawberry shortcake by adding 2 tbsp sugar into the dough
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the shortening and blend into the flour using a fork or pastry mixture until it is crumbly.
Make a hollow in the middle of the mixture and pour in the milk. Stir only until the milk is all taken up and you have a rather sticky ball of dough.
Place the dough on a well-floured board and roll it gently with a floured rolling pin until it is a patty about 1/2 inch thick.
With a biscuit cutter, cut rounds of the dough, each one just touching the net one, in order to get as many biscuits as possible. Pat the leftover strips into biscuits also.
Lay the biscuits on a greased pan, not too close together, and bake in a hot oven, 450º for 10-15 minutes, until they are lightly browned on top.
For strawberry shortcake, add strawberries, powdered sugar and whipped cream on top. For a nice sauce, boil some frozen berries with water and a bit of sugar until it thickens, then put through a sieve.
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the shortening and blend into the flour using a fork or pastry mixture until it is crumbly.
Make a hollow in the middle of the mixture and pour in the milk. Stir only until the milk is all taken up and you have a rather sticky ball of dough.
Place the dough on a well-floured board and roll it gently with a floured rolling pin until it is a patty about 1/2 inch thick.
With a biscuit cutter, cut rounds of the dough, each one just touching the net one, in order to get as many biscuits as possible. Pat the leftover strips into biscuits also.
Lay the biscuits on a greased pan, not too close together, and bake in a hot oven, 450º for 10-15 minutes, until they are lightly browned on top.
For strawberry shortcake, add strawberries, powdered sugar and whipped cream on top. For a nice sauce, boil some frozen berries with water and a bit of sugar until it thickens, then put through a sieve.