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You Say "Toe-Mah-Toe"



“The name “shortcake” is derived from an old English cooking definition of short which referred to something made crisp with the addition of fat. Shortcake is a crisp, crumbly cake made from butter which is how it got its name.”
Yesterday the farmers market was giving away strawberries. Two huge boxes were one dollar each. The berries were very ripe and just beautiful. Strawberry season is always a big deal in this part of Florida. Florida is the second-largest strawberry producing state following California. Strawberry season runs, generally from December until April. Depending upon the weather, it will often last through May as it has this year. Now Strawberries from California will begin arriving.
When I returned home, I showed them to the Greek bread and told him that I was going to make strawberry shortcake. I asked him if he knew what shortcake was and if they had it in England. He replied that he had never heard of shortcake and did not remember ever eating strawberry shortcake. Alrighty then… I had found a Shortcake recipe that really looked good on Pinterest. When I Leslie young wife and mother, I used Bisquick and the recipe found on the box to make shortcakes for berries. I cannot remember what Bisquick is called in the UK. shortcakes made with that recipe were never as good as the shortcakes we used to buy at the bakery when I was a child. 
As I gathered my ingredients, the light bulb went off and I realized that these ingredients were exactly the same ingredients used to make scones. At this point, I ran to the computer and Googled the word “shortcake’. As you can see from the first paragraph a shortcake is a scone. So as always in my marriage, the old saying, “I say "toe-may-toe", You say "toe-mah-You Sato still holds true.

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