Mid-Summer Strawberry Bannock Shortcake

This weekend brings alongside it a heap of celebrations for therefore many dissimilar cultures too reasons. From National Aboriginal Day, Summer Solstice too Mid-summer Celebrations to Father's Day; it's the longest twenty-four hours of the twelvemonth inwards these parts too a kicking off to the kickoff twenty-four hours of summer. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilful argue to last alongside friends too solid unit of measurement too interruption some bread! We institute this recipe inwards the July resultant of Canadian Living this week, too adapted it a flake to produce a delicious brunch-style dessert.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twist on the regular strawberry shortcake, the bannock (a traditional Canadian aboriginal bread) is sweetened alongside a picayune flake of vanilla too sugar. Best eaten when the bannock is fresh.




Strawberry Bannock Shortcake
(Adapted from Canadian Living - July/15)
For the Bannock—
two cups flour
two tbsp sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ loving cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
½ loving cup water
vegetable crude for frying

For the Strawberries—
three - 4 cups of strawberries (hulled too quartered)
1 tbsp sugar
1 loving cup of whipping cream (with 1 tbsp saccharide too 1 tbsp vanilla)

Method—
Mix the strawberries alongside the saccharide too laid aside.  For the bannock, add together all the dry out ingredients together too mix well. Create a good too add together the milk, vanilla too water.  Mix together simply until soft too slightly mucilaginous dough forms. Add to a greater extent than flour if necessary, 1 tbsp at a fourth dimension to make desired consistency.  Gather into a ball too house on a lightly floured surface.  Roll out to almost a ¼ inch thick too and then cutting into circular shapes using either a large cookie cutter, chapeau or cup.  Heat upwardly the crude inwards a cast atomic expose 26 skillet, gently house the dough rounds (3 or 4 at a time) into the oil, turning i time until puffed too golden, too then plough them over to gear upwardly the other side. Bannock is cooked when tip of knife inserted inwards centres comes produce clean (about half-dozen minutes). Remove biscuits alongside a slotted spoon too house onto newspaper towels to drain.  Let cool.

Whip upwardly the cream, adding the saccharide too vanilla at too then end.  To build, halve each biscuit too alternate whipping cream, strawberries, followed past times some other bannock biscuit, to desired height. We used 2½ halves. Top alongside to a greater extent than whipping cream too strawberries. Yum! Happy summertime celebrations!

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