Best Of Recipes | Mid Summertime Strawberry Bannock Shortcake
Friday 23 June 2017
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Pulling this process out of the volt to celebrate all things midsummer. From National Aboriginal Day (hence the bannock), Summer Solstice together with Mid-sommar Celebrations from Scandinavia where they ever brand a strawberry cake, this recipe is a skilful argue to endure alongside friends together with household unit of measurement together with pause some bread! This recipe is a twist on the regular strawberry shortcake, the bannock (a traditional Canadian aboriginal bread) is sweetened alongside a piffling fleck of vanilla together with sugar. Best eaten when the bannock is fresh. Happy midsummer!
Strawberry Bannock Shortcake
(Adapted from Canadian Living - July/15)
For the Bannock—
ii cups flour
ii 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 - iv cups of strawberries (hulled together with quartered)
1 tbsp sugar
1 loving cup of whipping cream (with 1 tbsp saccharide together with 1 tbsp vanilla)
Method—
Mix the strawberries alongside the saccharide together with ready aside. For the bannock, add together all the dry out ingredients together together with mix well. Create a good together with add together the milk, vanilla together with water. Mix together merely until soft together with slightly viscid dough forms. Add to a greater extent than flour if necessary, 1 tbsp at a fourth dimension to accomplish desired consistency. Gather into a ball together with house on a lightly floured surface. Roll out to nigh a ¼ inch thick together with and so cutting into circular shapes using either a large cookie cutter, hat or cup. Heat upwardly the crude inwards a cast Fe skillet, gently house the dough rounds (3 or iv at a time) into the oil, turning in ane lawsuit until puffed together with golden, together with so plough them over to hit the other side. Bannock is cooked when tip of knife inserted inwards centres comes hit clean (about vi minutes). Remove biscuits alongside a slotted spoon together with house onto newspaper towels to drain. Let cool.
Whip upwardly the cream, adding the saccharide together with vanilla at together with so end. To build, halve each biscuit together with alternate whipping cream, strawberries, followed yesteryear some other bannock biscuit, to desired height. We used 2½ halves. Top alongside to a greater extent than whipping cream together with strawberries. Yum! Happy summertime celebrations!
