English Shortcake

Name: English Shortcake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 113 grams 1/2 cup butter or margarine, cut into chunks; 2 larges egg yolks; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 158 milliliters low-fat buttermilk; 946 milliliters sliced peeled peaches, plums, or nectarines; or rinsed and drained raspberries, blueberries, or hulled strawberries (1 or more kinds of fruit); 1 teaspoons salt; 177 milliliters About sugar; 237 milliliters whipping cream

English Shortcake requires approximately 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 474 calories, 7g of protein, and 25g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. Only It works well as a dessert. A mixture of baking powder, whipping cream, buttermilk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It is an affordable recipe for fans of Southern food.

Instructions

In a bowl, mix flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

With a pastry blender or your fingers, cut or rub butter into flour mixture until no pieces are larger than 1/4 inch.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Blender

In a small bowl, mix buttermilk and egg yolks; add to flour mixture. Stir with a fork until evenly moistened, then press into a ball.

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Buttermilk

Egg Yolk

All Purpose Flour

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On a lightly floured board, knead until dough forms a smooth ball, 5 to 10 turns. Pat dough into a 1-inch-thick oval. With a floured round cutter (2 1/4 to 2 3/4 in. wide), cut dough; place pieces about 2 inches apart on a baking sheet, about 12 by 17 inches. Press scraps together, knead briefly, and repeat to cut more rounds.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Sprinkle cut dough evenly with sugar, using about 1 tablespoon total.

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Dough

Sugar

Bake in a 400 oven (or a 375 convection oven) until golden, 12 to 15 minutes.

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Transfer to racks.

In a bowl, mix fruit with sugar to taste. In another bowl, whip cream with a mixer on high speed until it holds soft peaks. Sweeten to taste with sugar.

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Cream

Fruit

Sugar

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Split warm or cool shortcakes in half. Set bottom halves on plates and spoon about half the fruit and juices onto cakes. Top each with a spoonful of cream. Set a cake top on each base and spoon remaining fruit and cream equally over each.

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Cream

Fruit

Base

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Servings:

2teaspoons

baking powder 1teaspoons

baking soda 113grams

1/2 cup butter or margarine, cut into chunks 2larges

egg yolks 591milliliters

all-purpose flour 158milliliters

low-fat buttermilk 946milliliters

sliced peeled peaches, plums, or nectarines; or rinsed and drained raspberries, blueberries, or hulled strawberries (1 or more kinds of fruit)1teaspoons

salt 177milliliters

About sugar 237milliliters

whipping cream

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern can be paired with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. One wine you could try is Selbach Oster Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett Halbtrocken. It has 4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 21 dollars.